While loading java applet entering chat room browser crashes

Reporter: 1. Please describe exactly what happens, and how you got there. How does the browser crash? If TalkBack comes up, what is the ID Number from the crash? 2. Is Java properly installed and working for Mozilla on your computer? Got to http://java.sun.com and see if the applets there load and display properly. 3. Why is the severity of this bug "enhancement"? Enhancement implies that this is a feature you would like to see added, not something that needs to be fixed.

severity => critical keyword crash please also post the talkback ID for the crash.

1. Access Yahoo! and log on. Then select "chat". After that "Enter chat room". Shows "Loading Java Applet". The browser disappears. 2. No talkback comes up, but it could be because this version is not talkback enabled. I'll do it next with another version. I notice that Galeon 1.2.1 also crashes. 3. But http://java.sun.com works just great. 4. The severity that I see above is "critical", not "enhancement" unless I am mistaken.

This is what appears in .xsession.errors after the browser crash. Browser crashed by accessing previously described Yahoo! chat.

Attachment 83186 [details] is output from mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.0rc2-sea.tar.gz dated 10-May-2002 17:23 12.4M . Is that talkback enabled? Anyway none shows up.

crashes with Java plugin do not trigger always talkback (the build you have is talkback-enabled) ==> OJI

Confirming on 1.0 RC2 branch Build ID: 2002051006 Windows 98 Sun Java 1.4. After opening a chat session, Mozilla hangs. It must be the same problem. Add keyword hang. OS --> All.

I found the bug through this: news://secnews.netscape.com:119/y9err4sx.fsf@verizon.net

Mozilla 1.0 RC2 (Build ID: 2002051009) running on Linux 2.4.18 with Sun Java 1.4.0. Browser doesn't crash. Java Chat Applet loaded successfully. Everything seems to work flawlessly, but the chat input doesn't work properly. You can't send more than once character at a time. Therefore, it is unusable.

about:plugins shows: Blackdown Java-Linux Java(TM) Plug-in 1.3.1 Could be that different Java versions cause different behavior.

Well I went to chat with the Yahoo people on the bug and you're all asleep! WFM with Java 1.4 on Win2K Gecko/20020512 I recommend trying this newer Java version.

*** Bug 144549 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I tried it on XP (moz1.0 rc2 with JRE 1.4) and Solaris (ns6.2.2 with JRE 1.4), and no crash. Reporter, have you got a chance to try it with a newer JRE, as Susie suggeted?

Right. I saw that j2re1.4 apparently fares better. This is the situation: I run a Debian Sid system, where I reported the bug on. Debian does not have a package for 1.4. Their 1.3 is from Blackdown java. So in order to try if the bug is still there I have to install the sun binary. My experience with overriding Debian packages is not all that good. Alternatively I could restore the sid system to another partition and then try the binary. Moreover: I don't give a hoot for Yahoo! chat. I do care for mozilla. So this I'll do: if the person the bug is assigned to asks me to install j2re1.4 and try the bug, I will.

It no longer hangs for me on Windows 98, Sun J2RE JRE 1.4, now using 1.0 RC2 branch Build ID: 2002051306. Resetting OS-->Linux, removing hang keyword. Reporter, if it works in Mozilla/Sun Java, then it is not a Mozilla problem. We're asking you to try Sun Java as a troubleshooting step. This isn't a religious war here. I'm out of here.

I installed sun's j2re1.4. Yahoo! chat -> enter chatroom now no longer crashes, but only 1 character can be typed in on the message entry box. This behavior was reported in comment #9. Note that j2re1.4 comes with 3 plugins: ns4, ns600 and ns610. The described behavior occurs with the latter 2. Sorry, but it does seem to be a mozilla problem...

In Compuserve 7/Win2K with Plug-in 1.3.1_02 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper) a couple of people replicated the following problem: -Unable to type a message at all -Unable to see the message threads although the rest of the chat window and participating member list loads correctly. -Also, the list of participants disappears after a second (not 100% replicable) This *might* be an evangelism problem, as I am sure Chat used to work with this JRE in CompuServe. Yahoo's help describes how they serve different versions of Chat depending on the browser so they might not be detecting properly anymore. I'm going to contact Yahoo to see if they can help troubleshoot.

PS - There is some freezing behavior where the windows start to overlap transparently in CompuServe including the Java console so it's not possible to see any errors.

this works for me using mfcEmbed 1.0 build from today and Java 1.4.0_01.

Using Netscape 7 PR - Gecko/20020512 on Win2K I crashed. At the time, I had both DLLs for Java 131_02 and 1.4.0_01 in my plugins folder.

I then deleted all the DLLs for 131_02 and restarted. I got the attached Java errors.

Interesting stack....going through plugins refresh and crashing in 4.x code.

The applet initializes and functions fine on Win2K Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 but does not initialize in Gecko/20020515 or other recent builds. I am not crashing 100% of the time, fyi. (Their embedded players are another story which I will file a separate bug about) :(

Priority to P1

This seems to be a Java bug. Re-assign to Java plugin group.

I fired sun bug #4698143 against the problem. It is reproduceable with Redhat 6.2 and 7.1, and appears to crash in side networking code. The bug has been assigned to java.net group.

zhengyu, that link bug #4698143 doesn't work. Anyway, I tried both on windows 2k, Jre 1.4.0_01 (branch build: 2002-06-10-08-1.0.0) and linux redhtat 7.3 (branch build; 2002-06-10-07-1.0.0), http://chat.yahoo.com worked without crashing.

I couldn't reproduce the crash anymore based on my comments #27. Could anyone try to reproduce this on linux? Thanks!

If no one could reproduce this bug, I will close it.

I see this bug with RedHat Linux 6.2, Mozilla 1.0, and JDK 1.3.1_02

Hmmm...I tried on linux redhat 7.3 based on my comment #27, it worked fine. Currently, my linux is broken. Could anyone try on linux for me? I just tested again on windows 2000, jre 1.4_0_01 (branch build: 2002-06-20-08-1.0.0), I could chat it without crashing.

I'm not crashing now either on recent builds. (I have to admit there have been times the browser just shuts down so fast I don't notice it's gone, but I have seen this on IE6 with Yahoo Chat). FYI I noticed that you can't create your own chat room which I let Yahoo know. Marking fixed.

Verified on linux redhat 7.3 (jre 1.3.1_02, netscape branch build: 2002-08-13-07- 1.0)

Shouldn't this be resolved WFM, not fixed? No patch was checked in for this bug.