860185 - Firefox Mobile closes after opening a specific nfl.com article and then another page on the Samsung Galaxy Tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

Attachment: log

Firefox Mobile 21 beta 2 / Nightly 23.0a1 2013-04-09
Samsung Galaxy Tab (Android 4.0.4)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Load nfl.com
2. Load 5-6 news items in separate tabs
3. Wait for the tabs to load

Expected results:
The pages are correctly loaded

Actual results:
Firefox Mobile closes from what appears to be an OOM

Notes:
I could not reproduce the issue on the Asus EEE Transformer TF101 (Android 4.0.4) or with other websites

Comment 1

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

I narrowed down the cause to a specific article: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000158607/article/dawan-landry-signs-contract-with-new-york-jets

Updated steps:
1. Load http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000158607/article/dawan-landry-signs-contract-with-new-york-jets and wait for it to load completely 
2. Load anyother page in a new tab

Result:
Firefox closes.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Looks like merely an out of memory problem; do a search in the log for 'has died' and look at all the processes being killed off. This is how Android operates.

Comment 3

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

This does not happen on the stock browser on the Samsung Galaxy Tab so this may be a Firefox Issue

Comment 4

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Can you grab an about:memory dump using the instructions at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android#about:memory after loading the page?

Note that the about:memory dumper was broken between 0e47bb858304 and bbed45f6dbcc (which I think includes the apr 10 nightly) so please use a build from before or after that range.

Comment 5

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

I am no longer able to reproduce the issue on the latest Nightly or Firefox Mobile 21 beta 2 so I am closing the issue as Works For Me