234348 - Writing a lot of text in the text area crashes Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Yannick MARCHEGAY]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630

With IE (sorry for the example), a slider is created when you try to write more
texte it can fit in the text box.
Mozilla simply crashes if you try

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Answer a message or create a topic in a phpbb forum
2. Write as much as you can

Actual Results:  
Mozilla is closed without any error message

Expected Results:  
Creation of a slider in order to be able to write as much as we want

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630

Is this a problem with a _recent_ build?

Comment 2

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

I confirm seeing the said bug.  Only on that forum, something in particular to
the theme they have going.  

Tried to produce a testcase, but couldn't get it to anything worthwhile.

Comment 3

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

> Is this a problem with a _recent_ build?

Firefox 0.8 shows it as well.

Comment 4

[Yannick MARCHEGAY]

I'll go on making tests but:
- I changed the theme and the problem keeps on occuring,
- a friend of mine has the same problem with Netscape,
- it works with another phpbb forum (no bug).

I'm new in bug reporting. What more can I do?

Comment 5

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

Being quite busy, I gave only a quick try to making a minimal testcase.

The best thing to have is an example that triggers this bug, with as little code
as possible (just what's causing the problem, nothing else).

So you can save that page, and strip out EVERYTHING that doesn't cause the
error.  All unnecessary tags.  What should be left is just what causes the problem.

That would be a good start.

It appears to be something in your theme (my guess would be CSS or Javscript).

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Daniel Wang]

tried writing 361 KB of text to it and neither Firefox 1.0.6 nor Mozilla 1.7
crashes. Can anyone reproduce this bug?

test account: username: mozilla password: moz

Comment 8

[Benoît]

Works for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051030 SeaMonkey/1.0b

Works for ajschult on Linux.

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