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firefox 3 beta crashes accessing web page

Bug #205568 reported by Rocko
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Firefox 3 beta 4 crashes trying to access this web page. To reproduce, start firefox and type this into the address bar and press enter.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23421080-2682,00.html

Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 beta, firefox 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1.

Attached is an strace.

Other web pages on this site seem to crash also.

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote :
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BrandonTomlinson (druke) wrote :

I am unable to reproduce on hardy beta x86_64, with ff3b4.

Aside from overuse of flash, site is fine.

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Michael Rooney (mrooney) wrote :

Also unable to confirm on an up-to-date Hardy Beta with ff3b4, x86_32.

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DocHoliday52090 (docholiday52090) wrote :

Charles - you just commented on the Xbox bug, right?

I crash on this one too.

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Matthew Tighe (tighem) wrote :

You guys should compare notes on extensions in use and system specs. This page displayed properly for me as well (Hardy x86_64 Beta, latest updates)

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote :

Firefox 3 crashes trying to display the page with no extensions at all (I just tried from a fresh install off the Hardy beta CD, with relevant upgrades applied). I haven't installed any Flash renderers like gnash or the Adobe one.

Firefox 2 (on Hardy) also crashes trying to display the page.

Opera (on Hardy) has no problem with the page.

Firefox 2 on Gutsy has no problem with the page.

What system specs might be useful to know? I'm using a 32-bit Dell Inspiron 8600 with ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 graphics card using the open-source ATI driver if that helps.

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Matthew Tighe (tighem) wrote :

That might help indeed. I can't reproduce it under Hardy Live CD either (running in a virtual machine). It could indeed be a specific driver issue. But my machine uses the nvidia driver. And it appears under virtualbox to be using a generic vga driver.

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Matthew Tighe (tighem) wrote :

DocHoliday52090, can you post your system specs?

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DocHoliday52090 (docholiday52090) wrote :

I think we should merge this with my original bug post "Xbox.com crashes on Xbox Live's Friend List". Seems to be the same problem.

Extensions don't make a difference.

My specs:

Ubuntu Hardy Beta
Firefox 3 Beta 4
Compaq nc6220
Pentium M / 512 ram
Intel 915 chipset

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote :

Yes, it looks to be the same problem. The site works if I turn off auto-image loading in Firefox, and I'm using EXA.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 205568] Re: firefox 3 beta crashes accessing web page
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 05:14:33PM -0000, Charles wrote:
> Also unable to confirm on an up-to-date Hardy Beta with ff3b4, x86_32.
>

most likely a extension related issue.

 status invalid

 - Alexander

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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