Bug 9741 – Crash on myspace.com

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WORKSFORME
• Component: New Bugs

[corey]

I keep getting lots of browser closures when i view diff myspace pages and even my own inbox, it crashes ALOT with myspace. It is very annoying, It also does it with safari, its not as bad it seems like with webkit. Can someone look into this.
thanks!

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Reporter, could you please attach a full crash log? Also, are the crashes random, or you can reproduce them reliably on certain pages?

[Joost de Valk (AlthA)]

Reporter, please give us a detailed description of how to reproduce this crash. If it isn't reproducible it's very hard to fix this bug.

ap: if this becomes reproducible, this is a HitListCandidate, cc-ing Geoff for that reason as well.

Alice, perhaps you can confirm this from Radars you've seen?

[Kurt Moore]

There are literally hundreds of myspace.com pages that will do one of several things:

1) kill safari
2) make safari unresponsive for minutes
3) make safari and the OS unstable 

Eventually these issues go away, but going back to the culprit URL will bring the issues back

Sample url that for me will cause a spinning ball for minutes, eventually rendering, and working ok after some time:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=22363029

What is strange, is if you have the patience, which I suspect most do not, you end up with a page that loads and works fine, even beyond a "clear cache".

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Sample url that for me will cause a spinning ball for minutes, eventually
> rendering, and working ok after some time:
> http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=22363029

That page works fine for me (considering all the embedded...media...on it) using a locally-built WebKit r15516.

> What is strange, is if you have the patience, which I suspect most do not, you
> end up with a page that loads and works fine, even beyond a "clear cache".

We need crash logs (click the "Report" button when Safari crashes, then copy and paste the text in the window into this bug) or explicit steps to reproduce the problems.

[Kurt Moore]

If it crashes, I will get you a report, for me, its mostly the stalls I would like to have looked at.  I can open a new case for that, or use this one, up to you.  Stalls that take the OS/Finder performance down are a bit strange, it is even hard to get the dock.app to respond enough to force quit.

Myspace has several, 10's or more, sub domains, like i.myspace.com, and I have a feeling, as often is the case, these are related to when those are non reachable as well.

[Joost de Valk (AlthA)]

MySpace has hundreds and hundreds of subdomains, i'd vote for closing this bug and filing new ones for specific subdomains that cause crashes or don't render.

[Kurt Moore]

Yes, they have many subdomains, but I dont personally believe it is as a result of those that are the crashing problem.  Close this case, and take a closer peek at this one:
http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11339

Which in my opinion, is highly related.

[Travis Beals]

This bug may already have been fixed in the nightly builds. Try the following URL:
http://myspace.com/sleepwelltexas

In the latest release version of Safari 2, this page brings Safari to its knees, with scrolling performance becoming unbearably slow.

In the r20897 nightly WebKit build, performance on the same page is normal.

Unless someone can come up with a myspace example that breaks both the release version and the latest webkit nightly, perhaps this can just be closed.

-Travis

[Kurt Moore]

I would say sure, close it, seems that one horribly slow loading page is much better in the nightly, however, I still would love to see some action on http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11339 as that issue still remains, even in the most current nightly, and has been void of replies for quite some time now.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Closed per Comment #9.