Re: 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load

["Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>]

Justin Madru wrote:
> Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>> Justin Madru wrote:
>>> Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>>>> Justin Madru wrote:
>>>>> Ok, more preliminary testing has returned that at least in the 
>>>>> case of the iGoogle page crashing, it's related to google talk.
>>>>> Because right after it connects to the google talk server the 
>>>>> crash happens.
>>>>> And why it doesn't crash on firefox 3.2 is because for some reason 
>>>>> the talk feature doesn't load on that version of firefox.
>>>>> I still get the crashes when going to Preferences->Main or 
>>>>> Preferences->Applications.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried the suggested moving of .gconf* .gnome* .mozilla*
>>>>> The only thing that did was make firefox crash when going to 
>>>>> Preference.
>>>>> I did not try compiling firefox from source, but I did test with 
>>>>> the binaries straight from mozilla.
>>>>> I also tried disabling any plugin/extention (I only have flash and 
>>>>> AdBlockerPlus), but no change.
>>>>>
>>>> What I should of said, is to maybe uninstall/disable any of those 
>>>> apps or plugins
>>>> that are automatically triggered when loading firefox.
>>>> (although renaming some of  the  .* files is good, freshens it up);
>>>> So when you don't go to google talk you can surf?
>>>
>>> So far only a connection to talkgadget.google.com or the 2 tabs in 
>>> preferences make firefox crash.
>>> Other than that I've yet to run into another site that makes it 
>>> crash, and can browse just fine.
>>> Actually, other than this bug .29-rc2 is running rather nicely ;-)
>>>
>>> Ok, this time I maded sure I uninstalled/disabled everything I could.
>>> Sill.... same results. So, I decided to try something different. 
>>> Test with Epiphany.
>>> I tried both with the geko and webkit backends.
>>> Same results, a crash when going to my iGoogle page that has google 
>>> talk applet.
>>>
>>> But, this time epiphany left an error to the console that gives a 
>>> clue to the cause:
>>>
>>> $ epiphany-webkit                                                ** 
>>> (epiphany-webkit:9016): WARNING **: Cannot extract frame (0,0) from 
>>> the grid
>>> ** (epiphany-webkit:9016): WARNING **: Cannot extract frame (36,0) 
>>> from the grid
>>> ** (epiphany-webkit:9016): WARNING **: Cannot extract frame (72,0) 
>>> from the grid
>>> ** (epiphany-webkit:9016): WARNING **: Cannot extract frame (108, 0) 
>>> from the grid
>>> ** (epiphany-webkit:9016): WARNING **: Cannot extract frame (144, 0) 
>>> from the grid
>>> ** (epiphany-webkit:9016): WARNING **: Cannot extract frame (180, 0) 
>>> from the grid
>>> ** (epiphany-webkit:9016): WARNING **: Cannot extract frame (216, 0) 
>>> from the grid
>>> ** (epiphany-webkit:9016): WARNING **: Cannot extract frame (252, 0) 
>>> from the grid
>>> console message:  @1: Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with 
>>> URL
>>> http://1.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?view=home&url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/youtube_igoogle/v2/youtube.xml&nocache=0&up_title=YouTube&up_username=&up_prefs_version=0&up_search_channels=0&up_search_channel_name0=&up_search_channel_url0=&up_search_channel_name1=&up_search_channel_url1=&up_search_channel_name2=&up_search_channel_url2=&up_current_channel_id=0&up_rawQuery=&up_channel_url_to_preload=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/US/recently_featured%3Falt%3Djson&lang=en&country=us&.lang=en&.country=us&synd=ig&mid=1&ifpctok=-8098139156870189641&parent=http://www.google.com&extern_js=/extern_js/f/CgJlbhICdXMrMBU4ACw/BrDZK7EjJT4.js 
>>>
>>> from frame with URL
>>> http://www.google.com/ig/ifpc_relay#%22remote_iframe_1%22&0&1&0&%22%2522remote_iframe_1%2522%26%2522resize_iframe%2522%26%2522%2522%26%2522%2522%26%2522remote_iframe_1%2522%26369%26%25221%2522%22&true. 
>>>
>>> Domains, protocols and ports must match.
>>> console message:  @1: Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame
>>> with URL http://www.google.com/ig from frame with URL
>>> http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/mole?id=gth-hover-card&hl=en#id=gth-hover-card. 
>>>
>>> Domains, protocols and ports must match.
>>> console message:  @1: Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame
>>> with URL http://www.google.com/ig from frame with URL
>>> http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/blank. Domains,
>>> protocols and ports must match.
>>> Segmentation fault
>>>
>>> So, it's complaining about matching domains, protocols and ports.
>>> Henceforth, I would surmise that the bug is related to the network 
>>> code?
>>>
>>> Justin Madru
>>>
>> Well positive side is you can at least  grab youre news and info.
>> bad side is you can't access igoogle(or whatever it's called).
>>
>> Domains, protocols and ports must match.
>> probably the culprit(if you found the correct location
>> that's causing this);
>>
>> regards;
>>
>> Justin P. Mattock
>>
> It's only half positive because I use the google rss reader of igoogle.
> Unfortunately, there's the stupid google talk app that won't go away, 
> that causes the crash!
> But I can fortunately use firefox 3.2 because google talk says it 
> doesn't support that browser and doesn't load.
>
> I'll do a git bisect if I can, and report back in a few days.
>
> Justin Madru
>
I suppose you can go in and manually
delete google talk. but then you never know what
will happen after that.

regards;

Justin P. Mattock