The nightly build 4.5.1999 crashes (both viewer && apprunner (there's no "Component" to select in bugzilla for both...) on a Pentium-II WinNT 4.0 SP 3 box with 64 MB, Netscape 4.51 installed. The window appears, but leaves empty until "Dr. Watson for WinNT" appears...

Sorry, swap month and day: month = 4 (April) day = 5 AFAIK the nightly build 4.5.1999 wasn't compiled yet =:-)

nightly build 4.4.1999 crashes, too - seems to be the same problem

Resolved as FIXED. Don't know what we did, but today's build works. :-)

Nightly build 7.4.1999 crashed, too. Still seems to be at the same point as the last crashing nightly builds - window opens, and then hard-disk makes the "sound of crash" (no joke, you can hear it when Dr. Watson for WinNT starts...). =:-)

Re-assigned to law@netscape.com, set target milestone to M4, and change priority to P1. Bill, figure our who should really get this bug.

It's not xpapps (since viewer.exe crashes, also). Sounds like what I was seeing before I rebooted NT. I suggest trying that. Another thing to try is "viewer about:blank" to see if it's an HTML parsing/rendering thing. Oh, and he should also try erasing c:\winnt\mozRegistry.dat.

Testing with nightly build 99-04-08: 1. Still crashes apprunner.exe and viewer.exe, same time as before 2. c:\winnt\mozRegistry.dat deletet 3. Again, both apps crashed... The last messages in the console before the crash are (apprunner.exe): -- snip -- Composer has been bottstrapped! Reading file... Reading file...Done REading file... Reading file...Done -- snip -- Last message of viewer.exe in the console: -- snip -- Going to create the event queue -- snip -- Maybe this can help a little bit...

Moving to M5; unable to reproduce here and seems to be a problem in very limited set of circumstances.

Seems to be a problem with the JAVA 1.2 JRE plugin (npjava32.dll), creating an empty /plugin (this was suggested by Bill Law - thanks !) directory solves the problem (crash), putting npjava32.dll in the directory, and the crash occurs again.

I wanted to close this as a dup but couldn't find the bug # for the problem with the java plugins. I'm reassigning this to amusil since he seems to own this problem.

1. I don't know the bug id#, too, but try to search for bugs reported by, AFAIK there was a plugin-related bug report (exit on applet load) 2. The bug is a startup crash. The other bug happened after startup, when an applet was loaded.. IMHO no duplicate...

Putting on proper component and QA Contact.

Marking as a dup of 3800 (Java startup bug w/ old versions of the JRE). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3800 ***

marking verified