174972 - Mozilla crashes when using 'Find in This Page'

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Mats Uddenfeldt]

Mozilla crashes without message when trying to 'Find in This Page'.

Bug occurs both when function is chosen from menu and with keyboard shortcut.
Bug reproduced under Gnome 2 using Sawfish WM.
After switching to Metacity WM, it no longer crashes.

Could be related to window creation?

My system:
Mandrake 9.1 (cooker)
gnome2-2.0.1-1mdk
sawfish-1.1a-2mdk
mozilla-1.1-10mdk

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

please post build ID, talkback ID 'mozilla/bin/components/talkback/talkback' or
GDB stack trace.

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

see also bug 174473 (hang instead of crash)

Comment 3

[giant food]

Problem also occurs running....
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

running Mac OS 9.2.2

Problem didn't used to occur, now every time I try to do "Find on Page", I get
the stopwatch cursor and it hangs. Could the Find dialog settings be corrupted (???)

Comment 4

[Jason Miu]

I use Mozilla 1.3 alpha (build ID: 2002121217), on RedHat Linux 7.3.
When I use "Find in this page" either in menu bar or "Ctrl+F", my mozilla freeze.

I am using KDE, with these rpms:
kdebase-3.0.0-12
kdelibs-3.0.0-10

However I am also using Mozilla 1.3aphla with Mandrake 8.1 on other system, but
the "find in this page" works fine. A system depending problem?

Comment 5

[Frank Plessmann]

I have the same problem every time I use "find in this page" does anybody knows
how to fix that?

Comment 6

[Stephen Keller]

For what it's worth.  I'm seeing the same behavior in Phoenix 0.5 running icewm
version 1.2.7 in Redhat 8.0 with with the 2.4.18-14 kernel.  It is always
reproducible and the only way I've found to get out of the hang state is to
killall phoenix-bin processes.  Not pretty.

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

the hang was probably bug 169777, which has been fixed in 1.3.

Mats: are you still seeing this crash with a recent build (1.3 or a nightly)?
If not, please mark this bug WORKSFORME

Comment 8

[Benjamin J. Stassart]

Searching used to work fine.  Now every time I try Control-F or Edit->Find in
this page Mozilla locks up hard.  No idea why it stopped working, but I wanted
to let you know that this problem does not seem to be limited to Linux and Mac.

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

Renaming XUL.mfl fixes it, so that does point at bug 169777.  I guess it's time
to upgrade to 1.3.

Comment 9

[Jessy]

Actually, 

I have the smae problem with one difference. When I use CTRL+F and type a search
string it doesnt crash, it just doesnt' find ANYTHING....


Jessy

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no stack, no testcase, no URL. Please comment if you still see this problem. But for now...
=> incomplete