502230 - firefox hangs OS when signing in to flickr.com

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 510627

(Firefox :: General, defect, P1)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: firefox build for WinCE

After just sign in to flickr.com firefox throws exception in xul.dll

The issue might not have been observed last week with the same release. So there is something special on the signin page today so might want to look today only.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open flickr.com in firefox
2.sign in with yahoo id
3.
Actual Results:  
data abort observed in xul.dll and firefox closes




LOG is as below:

852238 PID:3fb097a TID:75903f2 ** We want fake weight
 852455 PID:3fb097a TID:75903f2 _ogl_surface_create returned OpenGL ES error code 0x500
 852593 PID:3fb097a TID:75903f2 _ogl_surface_create returned OpenGL ES error code 0x500
 852660 PID:3fb097a TID:75903f2 _ogl_surface_create returned OpenGL ES error code 0x500
 852995 PID:3fb097a TID:75903f2 _ogl_surface_create returned OpenGL ES error code 0x500
 853184 PID:3fb097a TID:75903f2 Exception 'Data Abort' (4): Thread-Id=075903f2(pth=874ff000), Proc-Id=03fb097a(pprc=87181324) 'firefox.exe', VM-active=03fb097a(pprc=87181324) 'firefox.exe'
 853187 PID:3fb097a TID:75903f2 PC=43038820(xul.dll+0x00b08820) RA=58595a20(???+0x58595a20) SP=0011f4d8, BVA=00000000

Comment 1

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Morphing this bug some -- firefox is no longer crashing, but the entire system is hanging when the yahoo sign-in page is opened.