16582 - repeating content for large pages

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Tracking, defect, P3)

Description

[[e-mail]]

I've discussed this with "shaver" a bit, and it seems to be Mac OS specific, and
more specifically, specific to local files.

When rendering large pages, like 20+ KB, it at some point repeats the content,
breaking the document somewhere and starting from the top. It doesn't loop, it
just renders it an entire time and it ends.

Let me illustrate

The page looks like this in Netscape 4.x:

A)Start
B
C
D
E
F
G
H)End

And in Mozilla (M11, 1999-10-14-11, and older ones):

A)Start
B
C
D
A)Starts from top, breaking in the middle.
B
C
D
E
F
G
H)End

If I for example have Javascript at the top, it works only on the second,
repeating part.

I've checked if it has something to do with my HTML, but it doesn't. I replaced
all HTML that could matter with plain text, but it still occurred.

Comment 1

[chris hofmann]

parsing problem?

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

I do not understand what you mean by "parsing problem".

Comment 3

[rickg]

Can you try tracking this down please?

Comment 4

[harishd]

[e-mail], could you please give me a reduced case to reproduce the
problem.  Because I'm not seeing the repeat problem.

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

Sorry if I didn't say this - but it's most likely a MAC-specific bug. I talked to

[e-mail] about this.

Comment 6

[harishd]

Verified with Mac 8.6 and Mac 9.0 both load fine.

FYI: Tested with Oct. 19th build.

Marking bug WORKSFORME.

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

Well, guess I'll just skip it. Might check back when I've tried a build => 19

oct.

Comment 8

[leger]

Marking Verified as WorksForMe per above comments.  Please use latest nightly 
build from: http://www.mozilla.org/binaries.html and reopen bug if is happens 
again.  Thanks!