Closed Bug 460497 Opened 16 years ago Closed 15 years ago

view page source eating a lot of memory recursion continuous page load

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

3.0 Branch
x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
critical

Tracking

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RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: dsk, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

When you visit the page from the demo url and wait until you see some text printed on your screen and hit the STOP button on firefox and click view-> page source firefox will start to continuously download the page source even though page loading is stopped

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the URL
2. Wait 5-10 seconds until you see something printed on your screen. 
3. Go to view - > page source and firefox will start to reprint the page's source code.
Actual Results:  
Firefox started reprinting the code and started eating a lot of memory
Summary: page sorce eating a lot of memory recursion continuously page load → page sorce eating a lot of memory recursion continuous page load
URL fails to load

if you can reproduce in safe mode
 https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
with beta
 http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
with updated url, please reopen bug.

for now, incomplete
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Summary: page sorce eating a lot of memory recursion continuous page load → view page source eating a lot of memory recursion continuous page load
Version: unspecified → 3.0 Branch
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