Closed Bug 418232 Opened 16 years ago Closed 7 years ago

RealPlayer v11 browser record plugin v1.0 crashes Firefox

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: L.Wood, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

visiting any webpage from The Sun newspaper crashes Firefox 2.0.0.12 (winXP) hard.
wfm with 2.0.0.12 on win32

Talkback id of that crash ?
Does it also happen in the safemode ?
Why should this be a places bug ?
Component: Places → General
QA Contact: places → general
Turns out it's a RealPlayer v11 browser record plugin v1.0 problem - disabling that addon and restarting Firefox prevents the crash at that page. Changed title to reflect that.

(thesun.co.uk is a place, no?)
Summary: Sun website pages crash Firefox → RealPlayer v11 browser record plugin v1.0 crashes Firefox
This may be related to bug 359693 - see comment 13 there.
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → general
See also bug 422290.
Component: General → Plug-ins
I'm marking this bug as WONTFIX per bug #1269807.

For more information see - https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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