427372 - loading a html file with <embed> tag crashes the browser (VLC)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Plugins Graveyard :: VLC (VideoLAN), defect)

Description

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

I made a html file with two embed tags in it. By loading the embedded files the browser 
* crashes immediately 
OR 
*the page is rendered, you can play the embedded files but, when you reload the page while playing or after, the browser crashes.

I know that the <embed> tag is not w3c transitional but I think a browser should not crash.

Test case can be found here:
http://home.arcor.de/tfontane/Bug%20testing.html

HTML source code (as TXT file) can be found here:
http://home.arcor.de/tfontane/Bug%20testing.txt

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the test-case page
2.Browser should crash immediately or after you reloaded the page, after clicking the button
Actual Results:  
browser crashes

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with SM trunk and Firefox3b5.
Please provide a crash id if the crash reporter catched this crash, you get the ID from about:crashes

Comment 2

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

Okay. As I could reproduce this error multiple times, here are some crash ID's:
http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/51561a26-0401-11dd-a4fa-001321b13766

http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/4b038dde-0401-11dd-ae31-001b78bc73ea

http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/51561a26-0401-11dd-a4fa-001321b13766

These are just three of the many crash-reports I experienced. Hope this helps you to identify the problem. 

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

<embed> is of course valid and works fine usually.
This crash seems to be caused the the VLC plugin on your system.
That also explains why i can not reproduce this because i disabled the plugin becuase it's crashing a lot :-)

Comment 4

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

Mmh, interesting. I think you Mozilla contributors can't do anything about it then. I have to file a bug report in the vlc bug tracker. Am I right?

Comment 5

[timeless]

that's the best action, include your report number here.

if someone from VLC needs our help, we can help them, but for the time being, from what we can tell, it's their fault :).

Comment 6

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

I have notified the vlc developers using the forum (wasn't able to cope with the vlc bug tracker):
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=45716

Comment 7

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

At last I was able to file a bug report in the vlc bug database:
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1553

Let's see what they'll do about it!

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> At last I was able to file a bug report in the vlc bug database:
> http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1553
> 
> Let's see what they'll do about it!

it's still open. and written there that "using two embed VLC player in a same page is not supported."