177636 - "Find in page" with long pages hangs Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[juggy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021028
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021028

when surfing this (or maybe other) long web site with lots of tables and hitting
"Find in Page", Mozilla seems to hang forever with 99%/100% CPU load

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load website
2.hit <CTRL+F>
3.wait forever

Actual Results:  
99%/100% cpu load

Expected Results:  
shown find dialogue

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021028

Comment 2

[Akkana Peck]

WFM too (linux).

Comment 3

[Chris Lyon]

WFM 20021130 on WinXP.

Comment 4

[Jonathan Gowland]

Running 1.2.1 release on Linux (RH 7.3), this problem started one day, several
days after I had installed 1.2.1.  Each time, I had to kill Mozilla then restart
its, and each time, as soon as I pressed <Ctrl><F> or clicked Edit->Find in
Page, Mozilla would hang, and take up 99 % of CPU time.  Finally I decided to
run strace(1) on the Mozilla process.  As long as I had strace running, Find in
Page worked.  As soon as I killed strace, Mozilla hung, and as soon as I
restarted strace, Mozilla sprang back to life.