1193292 - Firefox Popup Crash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 685828

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[ashesh1708]

Attachment: example.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76B) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Mobile Safari/535.19

Steps to reproduce:

METHOD 1:

1. Open Console
2. Enter this JS:

while(true){ var foo=window.open("http://example.com"); }

3. Executing this will :

+ hang the whole firefox process.
+ Make all Closing options unusable except Task Manager
+ Use 1.5 GB Ram!

METHOD 2:

1. Go to example.html attached.
3. visiting this html will :

+ hang the whole firefox process.
+ Make all Closing options unusable except Task Manager
+ Use 1.5 GB Ram!



Actual results:

1. Whole Firefox was unresponsive
2. it was using 1.5 GB of Memory
3. i had to end it using TAsk amager but obviousle **many** don't know how to handle this.


Expected results:

Firefox should stop the script execution or prompt user asking wheather to stop it or not.