17471 - Frequent crashes ever since incremental reflow

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Alex]

SUMMARY:
Ever since the incremental reflow layout-engine change was incorporated in
build 19991026** I've seen a dramatic increases in crashes.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
This bug, if my guess that it is a bug is correct, can be tricky to reproduce:
On a high speed connection, launch Mozilla and visit many large sites one after
another and with any luck it should crash seemingly randomly.

MY REASONING
My guess, based on my extremely limited knowledge, is that on a high speed
connection Mozilla is forced re-render the page, as it downloads, a couple
times in a much small time frame than would on a regular modem connection. And
somehow this is causing more frequent crashes that seem to happen.

I haven't been able to test this on another system, but I do have a Pentium 233
MMX and 96 megs RAM, if that info helps any. Build 1999102708 behaves
similarily (crashes much more often) as well.

Comment 1

[troy]

There's nothing in this bug to reproduce the problem, e.g., a URL, and there's
no stack trace that helps isolate the problem

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

Marking as verified invalid.