430830 - When PDF is embedded into HTML, FireFox 3 Beta 5 Will EASILY Crash

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[lmcquarr]

On our external browser test site, we have a number of examples of PDF embedded in HTML using both an object tag and the embed tag.  

This is a new regression in Firefox 3 beta 5.  This problem does NOT happen in Beta4 and Beta 3.


Pretty much every one of them will quickly crash in Firefox with this sequence:

0 - Install the free Adobe Reader from: 
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

1 - view the embedded PDF page (see below for some URLs)
2 - go back to a non pdf page
3 - go forward to that embedded pdf again.

It seems as if after you view one of the above, Firefox 3 beta 5 is doomed to crash no matter what you do.



Here are some pages to try:
http://acroeng.adobe.com/Test_Files/embedded/simple-embed.html
http://acroeng.adobe.com/Test_Files/embedded/embed2.html
http://acroeng.adobe.com/Test_Files/embedded/embedded_big.html
http://acroeng.adobe.com/Test_Files/objecttest/obj_test/pdf_in_html.htm
http://acroeng.adobe.com/Test_Files/objecttest/firefox_ie_object_tag_forms.html

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Works for me, Firefox 2008042305 on Windows XPSP2, Adobe Reader Plugin 8.1.2
I can reproduce the crash in 3.0b5 though, so I think this bug has
been fixed in the latest trunk builds, please verify:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 2

[lmcquarr]

Yes, it is fixed in the latest trunk.  Hooray!  Thank you! 
(We have some very large mutual customers who use PDF embedded in HTML extensively for forms solutions.)