84616 - Clicking on links hangs browser

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Adam Cioccarelli]

When visiting www.smh.com.au the homepage works correctly, however when clicking
on a link to a story or other page the browser begins to open the page, the
heading appears in the title bar of the terminal, but then the browser hangs.
There is no progress in the animated mozilla window and if I move to another
desktop and then back there is only garbage on the screen. Killing mozilla or
the java_vm is the only way to stop mozilla. I first noticed this problem in the
nightly builds around two weeks ago. I am using the java plugin and Shockwave
Flash plugins. The same page works without the java plugin installed.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm tih win2k build 20010608.. (CVS opt)
but see bug 66032 (worksforme)
-> Oji

Comment 2

[Adam Cioccarelli]

Well it's definitely not an NT problem for me! But it would definitely seem to
be a java problem as I have no trouble without the java plugin. I have the same
problem on cvs from the trunk and with 0.9.1....

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

Confirming with a linux CVS build frmo 20010607.
The same little applet is supposed to work on the story pages as well, but
instead moz hangs before it starts animating. Only some of page loads  before
the hang. Low CPU.

Comment 4

[edburns]

This is another lazy loading problem.  If you wait for the main home page to 
load completely before clicking on another link, it works ok, but if you just 
click on another link right away, it hangs.  

Re-assigning to Patrick Beard, author of the Lazy Loading fix.

Comment 5

[shrirang khanzode]

SPAM: reassigning all OJI bugs to new OJI QA, pmac ( 227 bugs)

Comment 6

[kaehler]

I get hangs at various sites when java plugin is installed (0.9.2 - Linux). 
Without the plugin I get no hangs.  I do not think it is a lazy loading problem.
 When I visit a site which causes a hang it will not come out of it even if I
wait for the load (20 minutes long enough?).  I also end up with hung java_vm
processes.  A "kill -9" will not kill them.  To clean up the hung processes I
need to reboot.

Comment 7

[avg]

The same behaviour continues in the latest 0.9.3 builds (Linux).  Loading
a page which causes java_vm to start hangs the browser; loading these
same pages without the java plugin causes the get-the-plugin popup,
but no hang.  Choosing the lesser of 2 evils, but it's slightly
preferable to lose content/function at some sites, than to have those
sites completely freeze all browser windows.

Comment 8

[Vladimir Strigun]

I cannot reproduce this bug with Mozilla 0.9.3 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; 
en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010827) on Linux 2.2.14-12smp.
I try to load url and do not wait while it completely load and try to click link 
and browser correctly loads another url.  

Comment 9

[Adam Cioccarelli]

Seeems to be much better with 0.9.3. I haven't noticed this behaviour since
upgrading, but I might just be lucky so far...

Comment 10

[avg]

With latest build (Mozilla/5.0 X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+
Gecko/20010828), if I try to go to http://java.sun.com/ the browser
locks up solid.  Doesn't matter if I follow a link to get to a java
page, or type a URL directly; doesn't "seem to" matter if I wait for
a page to finish loading or not.  If I stumble onto a page that has
embedded java content, my browser is toast, and I have to kill it
from the command line.

Comment 11

[Adam Cioccarelli]

OK I take it back, my java seems to be only half working, my about:plugins says
 that it is installed but I just get loading java applet. This is probably the
reason it works for me now! 

Comment 12

[Patrick C. Beard]

Has anybody managed to produce some stack crawls that show where 
the hang is occurring?

Comment 13

[Patrick C. Beard]

Reassigning to default module owner. Can anybody still reproduce this bug?

Comment 14

[Patty Mac]

Patrick, I still can reproduce this on linux redhat 6.2 (2001-12-11-08-trunk).
1. Type this url:http://www.smh.com.au
2. Click on the image on the top right corner.
3. It crashes.
I will attach the talkback report. I think the server is currently down.
There's no crash on windows 98 though.

Comment 15

[Sergey Lunegov]

WFM on RH 7.1 with CVS trunk build form 20020211 for JRE 1.3.1

Comment 16

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

patty: can you please clarify how did you reproduce the crash?
     Site works for me (RedHat 7.1, recent trunk build).
     Also i was unable to find any java stuff there.

Comment 17

[Joshua Xia]

reassign to me

Comment 18

[Pete Zha]

WFM on Linux(RH8.0) mozilla1.2.1 JRE1.4.1_01