241122 - Hang when selecting mail messages with attachments

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[S Bufton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7b/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7b-installer.tar.gz

After installing 1.7b, certain mail messages are unreadable, and cause Mozilla
to hang (90%+ CPU for several minutes) reproducibly. The problem only happens
with messages with attachments, but not all of these. The hang may due to the
size of the attachment, or type. Other messages (before or after the message
causing the hang) are readable.
Reinstalling 1.6 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040113) solves the problem, so it is new in 1.7b.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a mail message with an attachment

Actual Results:  
Status bar message 'Loading message...' appears, all Mozilla windows hang. The
message is not displayed, and other windows do not repaint when necessary. The
browser must be killed using KDE's task manager, or CTRL-C when started from the
command prompt.

Expected Results:  
Not hung :-)

Comment 1

[S Bufton]

Attachment: Sample e-mail causing the hang

This e-mail hangs 1.7b, but can be viewed normally in 1.6

Comment 2

[Ray Booysen]

My build: 2004041917

Reporter, can you please download a newer build.  Your build is a bit old.  

Comment 3

[S Bufton]

Tested with 1.7rc1, works.

Comment 4

[Jason Bassford]

No bug/patch identified that fixed this.

->WORKSFORME