rekha.rangarajan@eng 1997-12-05

JDK Version: JDK1.2beta2-Y
Hotjava: HJB 1.1 for Win32

Problem only occurs on Windows 95.


Steps to reproduce:-

0. Launch hotjava (after setting JDK_HOME to point to JDK1.2beta2-Y).
1. Go to www.news.com. Place your mouse somewhere outside the hotjava window while the page is loading.
3. Allow the page to load completely.
4. Now, drag your mouse over the top-most animated gif.
5. An error dialog pops up with the following info (click Details):

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown.

If the problem persists, please contact the program vendor.

JAVAW has caused a general protection fault in module GDI.EXE at 0026:000011c6
Registers:
EAX=000092c8 CS=0697 EIP=000011c6 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000007 SS=27af ESP=c43389e4 EBP=0008a12
ECX=0000ff96 DS=2f7e ESD=00000004 FS=1a16
EDX=00000202 ES=1a16 EDI=0000004a GS=188e
BYEST AT CS:EIP:
66 83 3c 47 00 0f 84 24 01 00 00 66 8b 04 42 03

6. Click Close and hotjava closes.

Currently, you can cause the crash by moving the mouse over two different gifs on this page. The one mentioned above and also another one to the bottom left corner. The same error as above occurs.

hotjava also crashes (with same error) when mouse is dragged over certain gifs in http://espnet.sportszone.com.