184327 - huge rendering error under not so uncommon legit situation

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mlathoud]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

Recipe for this bug:
a link, in a table, whose label has at least a whitespace before a string not
ending but containing an accentuated character, i.e
-triggers the bug
"see, woà!" 
" àa"
-does not
" àà"
"à à!"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
<table border=1>
<tr><td>
<center>
<a href=about:blank> hé!</a>
</td></tr>
</table>

Actual Results:  
Height of the table is probably around 65000 pix (or whatever huge value may fit).

Expected Results:  
Height of a single line of text.

Comment 1

[mlathoud]

Slightly different circumstances, same result (taken from
http://www.exotarium.ca/vedette.htm);
change anything (font type, size, width of the cell, length of the string) and
it won't happen.

<table>
<tr>
<td width="530">
<font face="verdana" SIZE="2">
Il chasse fr&eacute;quemment sur la terre ferme si
le couvert v&eacute;g&eacute;tal est suffisant. Il 
ne va gu&egrave;re &agrave; l'eau, sauf la nuit. Dans 
certaines zones, les individus restent en groupes 
pr&egrave;s des mares, se cachant sous les racines 
des arbres durant le jour.</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Comment 2

[Sébastien Delahaye]

WFM for both sites using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

Comment 3

[mlathoud]

Hrm, a reboot fixed it! Go figure.

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

worksforme is the correct resolution

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

re-resolving

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified wfm per reporter's comment.