196495 - freezes if line is too long for textarea; keyboard freezes too, so can't to "three-fingered salute"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Elizabeth Stapel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.77 [en] (Win98; U) WebWasher 3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

If I'm filling out a form (in particular, when I'm answering a student's 
question on the Mathnerds.com tutoring service) and I use cut-n-paste to insert 
a URL which is longer than the physical width of the textarea, the browser 
freezes.  This also freezes the keyboard, so I can't CONTROL-ALT-DELETE my way 
out of the situation.  I don't think this is a problem with the Mathnerds form 
handler, since the problem occurs immediately upon the cut-n-paste (I can't get 
as far as clicking on "Submit"), and their form works fine in other browsers 
(including IE6 and NN4).

By the way, I just tested this on my own site, and the cut-n-paste worked 
fine...?

Here is the coding for the Mathnerds textarea:

<form ACTION="/ask/addTeamMembercomment.asp" METHOD="post">
<input type=hidden name=index value=48063>
<input type=hidden name=TeamMemberName value='Elizabeth Stapel'>
<textarea name=answer WRAP=PHYSICAL STYLE='background: #ffffff' rows=15 cols=77 
name=answer></textarea><br>
<input TYPE="image" border=0 src='/images/submitcomment.gif'>
</form>

Here is the code for my own textarea:

<center><p><font face="Arial" size="2">e-mail address:</font>
<font face="Arial" size="3" color="#000000">&nbsp; </font>
<input type="text" name="submit_by" size="30" tabindex="2">
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Please type your message below:</font><br>
<textarea rows="8" name="feedback" cols="45" wrap="physical"></textarea>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit">
<input type="reset" value="Reset" name="Reset"></font></center>

Would the included "styles" be the problem...?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.mathnerds.com; sign into account.
2. Find web site that will be useful for student; highlight and "copy" URL from 
location bar (usually from another browser).
3. "Paste" URL into textarea.
Actual Results:  
If the URL is short, there is no problem.  If the URL is longer than the 
textarea, the browser freezes, the keyboard freezes, and, while the cursor can 
still move and open other windows (from the taskbar), nothing else works.  
CONTROL-ALT-DELETE is inaccessible; computer must be restarted.  Note: the 
browser freezes even if the URL is pasted into the textarea as two short lines, 
and then the carriage return on the first half of the line is deleted to 
reattach the second half of the URL.

Expected Results:  
Cut-n-pasted the URL, with a forced break if necessary, or have the textarea 
scroll.

I don't think I've made any changes to the default set-up of Mozilla, other than 
making Mathnerds.com my "home" page for this browser.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

-> invalid

Sorry but your build is to old to report bugs. We accept only bugs from maximum
2 week old builds