486032 - firefox crashes instantly when I click that link; konqueror displays the same page with no problem.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[dxc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032711 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032711 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.8

the browser vaporizes every time I click that link.  I've been reading that blog for years with no problem until now.  it started right after the update.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  click the link
2.  watch it disappear
3.
Actual Results:  
pfffft

Expected Results:  
I expected to read the blog.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

We need a Stack tracewith debug symbols.
For Mozilla.org binary builds it's very easy because we include the Breakpad crash reporter ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report ) but that's not available for builds from a distributation like Ferdora. In that case you have to get the debug symbols from Fedora and run Firefox in GDB. I can not explain how to do that, you might want to ask the Fedora support.

Comment 2

[dxc]

this turns out almost certainly to have been caused by a video downloading in the background.  it is now removed and now the page loads fine.  I've asked the page maintainer for a URL to the vid.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This could be a plugin issue but the used plugin depends on the video file.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Can you identify the blog post that triggers this, so the bug won't "mysteriously disappear" when it falls off of the front page?

A stack trace would be good too :)

Comment 5

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

No reply from the OP from very long time, so I'm marking this as INCOMPLETE.