313275 - dictionary.reference.com causes cpu drain and memory leak when searching for "phantom"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jimjamjahaa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7

this is really strange. i searched for "phantom" in dictionary.reference.com,
and it gobbled up my processor and leaked for 3 minutes until i killed it. this
happens every time as far as i can tell. the odd thing is it doesnt happen for
other words. i searched for "poo" and "banana" and it was fine, but "phantom"
gave me the bug. 

here be a screenshot of the problem
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/5998/screen5dp.png

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to dictionary.reference.com
2. search for "phantom"
3. just look at your resources diminish!

Actual Results:  
memory leak and constant cpu drain

Expected Results:  
no memory leak and no constant cpu drain

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051021
Firefox/1.5 ID:2005102105

WFM , no leaks

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

WFM in both 1.0.7 and 1.5

Comment 3

[Voyagerfan5761]

WFM in 2.0.0.2

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

works for me in Firefox 3.0 beta 5

Closing bug as WORKSFORME, since nobody can reproduce, and the author hasn't responded in years.