(In reply to Tony Davis from comment #77) > As this has been proven to be a bug, that can easily be reproduced, I am wondering why it is still open 20 years on! I know that mostly "power users" or techies might hit this occasionally, but it would be good to know if it IS going to be worked on at some stage, as users accidentally hitting this, would NOT want to get the loop ad memory exhaustion. Actually, I've done a bunch of work much more recently (than 20 years ago...) to stop this happening, see e.g. bug 1678255, bug 1496380, bug 1750253. It would be useful to have more information about what _exactly_ you do to hit this case still, on what operating system, with what filetype, and what download preference changes you make - from a [clean Firefox profile](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles).
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(In reply to Tony Davis from comment #77) > As this has been proven to be a bug, that can easily be reproduced, I am wondering why it is still open 20 years on! I know that mostly "power users" or techies might hit this occasionally, but it would be good to know if it IS going to be worked on at some stage, as users accidentally hitting this, would NOT want to get the loop ad memory exhaustion. Actually, I've done a bunch of work much more recently (than 20 years ago...) to stop this happening, see e.g. bug 1678255, bug 1633790, bug 1496380, bug 1750253. It would be useful to have more information about what _exactly_ you do to hit this case still, on what operating system, with what filetype, and what download preference changes you make - from a [clean Firefox profile](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles).