Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 203709
firefox 1.5.0.6 crashes with acroread plugin
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:41 EST
Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: every time viewing an PDF Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install acroread-7.0.8 plugin 2. Browse to a page with a PDF (e.g.: http://www.physik.uni-muenchen.de/fakultaet/zentrale_bereiche/geschaeftsstelle/merkblaetter/index.html 3. Click on one of the PDF's Actual results: Firefox crashes Expected results: acroread plugin should open PDF inside the browser window Additional info: This bug did not happen with firefox 1.5.0.4, also it do not happen with the stock firefox from mozilla.org, so it must be somewhere in the fedora patches against firefox. Also there seems to be also a problem with Java plugin (SUN JRE), the plugin shows up in about:plugins, but refuses to start. This bug seems to be related to the acroread bug, as this started to happen also after 1.5.0.4, and also works with stock firefox.
Created attachment 134705 [details] gdb stack backtrace
This bug is not fixed by 1.5.0.7 Also probably related to this bug: The Sun Java Plugin do not work as expected. The plugin just does nothing. This can be reproduced by surfing onto the SUN Java testpage: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml Please fix this bug asap, it definitly reduces the usability of firefox! And it is definitly a bug introduces by some Fedora changes, as the stock veron from mozilla.org did not have this bug. Sincerly, Klaus
I can agree that java link causes firefox to crash instantly.
fixed in 1.5.0.10 (caused by too long user agent string)