172923 - hang when viewing source of email message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 170088

(Core Graveyard :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

when I view source of the attached email message (seems to be a virus whose name
I forgot) mozilla hangs.

happens both in mailnews and in browser, therefore filing in ViewSource component.

build 2002100317 win98.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Attachment: testcase. load attachment, then view source

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

note that the hang happens before the new window opens.

correcting severity - hang=critical

Comment 3

[Stephan Slabihoud (:slabbi)]

Confirming with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Comment 4

[Jon Connell]

Seems to be most messages for me (Win2k; Mozilla 1.2b). Task manager shows
mozilla running away with the CPU.

Comment 5

[Georg Maaß]

Mozilla 1.2.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Betriebssystem Windows 2000 Rel. 5.00.2195 SP2
HW:  AMD-K6 400MB RAM 

Comment 6

[Ulrike Jahnke-Soltau]

Fixed by deleting XUL.mfl somewhere in Mozilla/Profiles/and_so_on
at least in the system described by Georg.

Comment 7

[Myrna]

Hngs up when reading email

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030]
(BuildId=2003110115, bug 224340#c19) (W98SE)

WokrsForMe: display attachement in Browser, then View Source.

Resolving as Duplicate, based on comment 6 and bug 170088 comment 12.
(reopen if needed)


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170088 ***