118939 - visit this site makes the harddisk spin and hangs Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112241

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[H. Stokhorst]

1. visit http://www.aaadir.com/world.jsp
2. choose a country like Bahamas or Luxembourg
3. watch your harddisk spin
4. press Ctrl-Alt-Del
5. select Mozilla (not responding)
6. press enter

Mozilla build 2001 12 21 06 (0.9.7) - running on windows 95

Comment 1

[Julien Cegarra]

Workforme. (BuildID: 2002 01 08 03/Win98).

/jc

Comment 2

[Jeremy Sanders]

Worksforme. Linux 0.9.7. 2001122108

Comment 3

[Juha Luoma]

I'm seeing this with 2002010608 on WinNT. What happens is that as soon as I
select the country, Mozilla's memory usage explodes.

Comment 4

[Olivier Cahagne]

confirming on Win2k with build 2002010803 when clicking on some country in the
selectbox. Then memory increases (I killed Mozilla when up to 400MB in ten
seconds). Mozilla hangs, does not crash; I added keyword 'hang', perhaps summary
should be changed from 'crash' to 'hang'.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Dom0 (?) and confirming

(mozilla hangs and use >220MB RAM)

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

On this page there's JS that sets the text on a selected option when the
selection is changed. This causes us to infinitely call the onchange event
handler on the select synchronously until we run out of memory, or overflow the
stack.

Over to jkeiser for futher investigation.

Comment 7

[R.B.]

In view of comment #6: dupe of bug 112241 ?

Comment 8

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

Yes, it is.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112241 ***