141498 - Selecting lines containing <BR> tag and right-clicking hangs browser (100% CPU usage)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 141455

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[doctor__j]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020430
BuildID:    2002043010

When you make word selection which spans to two lines or more, and
right-clicking to bring up the context menu, you will have 100% CPU usage and
Mozilla hangs...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the testcase.
2. Make word selection such that the selection spans into two lines or more.
3. Right click to bring up the context menu.

Actual Results:  100% CPU usage and Mozilla hangs.

Expected Results:  Context menu pops up.

Probably the <br> tag in between two lines choked the menu item "Web search for
%s" in context menu.

Comment 1

[doctor__j]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Dupe of bug 141455?

pi

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141455 ***