124672 - pressing delete key with selected text hangs composer

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 124209

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[scattol]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+)
Gecko/20020208
BuildID:    2002020803

take a normal email and reply to it, you then selected some text starting
from the top (or maybe just after the "blabla wrote:" line) and
then press the delete key on the function keypad between keyboard
and numerical keypad. all of Mozilla will hang with 100% CPU.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. select an plain text email from the mailer
2. reply to it using the reply button
3. composer come up.
4. Select text from below JimBob wrote: to say the middle of the quoted email
5. press the delete key from the function keypad.
6. Mozilla will hang

Actual Results:  Mozilla hangs with 100% CPU consumption

Expected Results:  the elected text to be deleted

as far as I can tell, using the backspace works. Still this is really
annoying because once this happens your only recourse is to kill the mozilla
process which means that you lost all that you typed into your email (you could
not select it to save it since mozilla was hung)

Comment 1

[scattol]

It doesn't have to be a selection at the top but it looks like you have
to select the first character of a line.

Both the backspace and the delete key exhibit the same problem.

Comment 2

[scattol]

And you have to select (starting with the first char of a line) with the
mouse. Selecting with keyboard navigation doesn't reproduce this problem.

Comment 3

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124209 ***

Comment 4

[sujay]

verified.

Comment 5

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassign in case bugs are later reopened