545917 - Firefox crashes when the page is loading and scrolling with mouse wheel is done simultaneously

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 531341

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Adam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

When using an IBM thinkpad T60 with the IBM (TP something) drivers for the mouse control (the one in the center of the keyboard), if I hold down the scroll toggling button and a page is not finished loaded, firefox will halt for a second and then be brought to its knees, crashing the browser and asking me to submit a crash report.  You guys probably have at least 40 from me.  The problem is fairly consistent, although it's not triggered every time.  I know almost immediately when it's about to happen.  It can almost be done on cue.  

Sorry for the poor explanation, I did the best I could to explain how to reproduce it.  

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a page, let it take a little while to load
2. hold down middle (scroll toggle) button, and use red finger thingy to scroll down a little
Actual Results:  
crashes

Expected Results:  
Do nothing or scroll down to what is already rendered on the page.

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #0)
> to submit a crash report.  You guys probably have at least 40 from me.

Then please post some crash IDs for those reports for us to look at:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report

Comment 2

[Adam]

eh, it's probably easier just to give you a URL to a screenshot, there's a lot of them.

Here: 
http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~adam/ffcrashes.PNG
fairly certain that all of those are caused by the same bug.

Comment 3

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #2)
> eh, it's probably easier just to give you a URL to a screenshot, there's a lot
> of them.

No, it's much more annoying as now I have to type an ID in manually. I'm only going to bother with one, though, if you're saying they're all the same issue. In the future, please just copy and paste the list text, which would've been much easier and simpler.

bp-bd737fe3-dfc4-449b-b199-501652100212
0  	xul.dll  	nsWindow::ProcessMessage  	 widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp:3676
1 	xul.dll 	nsWindow::WindowProc 	widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp:3587
2 	user32.dll 	InternalCallWinProc 	
3 	user32.dll 	UserCallWinProcCheckWow 	
4 	user32.dll 	DispatchClientMessage 	
5 	user32.dll 	__fnDWORD 	
6 	ntdll.dll 	KiUserCallbackDispatcher 	
7 	xul.dll 	nsGenericDOMDataNode::cycleCollection::RootAndUnlinkJSObjects 	
8 	xul.dll 	nsWindow::OnScroll 	widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp:6051
9 	xul.dll 	xul.dll@0x42a981 	
10 	xul.dll 	nsWindow::HandleScrollingPlugins 	widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp:6030
11 	xul.dll 	nsWindow::OnScroll 	widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp:6051
12 	xul.dll 	xul.dll@0x42a981 	
13 	xul.dll 	nsWindow::HandleScrollingPlugins 	widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp:6030
14 	xul.dll 	nsWindow::OnScroll 	widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp:6051
...
...

Looks to be bug 531341 which currently seems to be aiming for the fix to be released in Firefox 3.6.2.

Comment 4

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

As Dave says, it's much easier to give us the link.

This should be fixed in the next point release of Firefox 3.6

Comment 5

[Adam]

Ah ok, great.

Comment 6

[David Cook [:dncook]]

In the meantime, try running Windows Update to get the new Alps pointing device drivers -- that stopped the crashes for me.