207739 - Browser crashes if you enter only // at the url bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 185663

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[H. Ebelt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

Simply enter // in the URL bar and hit enter. The bug might work with every
browser since 1.2 (if i remember correctly)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter //
2. Hit Return


Actual Results:  
The browser crashes.

Expected Results:  
Nothing, because this is an invalid url (isn't it ?)

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Verified 2003053008 PC/WinXP, though I experienced a hang, and not a crash. Also
no Talkback generated.

Reporter, if you are actually crashing, do you have a Talkback ID?

Comment 2

[Laurens Blankers]

Got the same problem but the browser doesn't crash, it hangs and uses 100% CPU time.

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

confirm hang, if // entered manually into the location bar

wfm, if I click on the test URL above, gives: 
Alert: The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.

If I hover over the test URL link above, I see http:/// in the status bar.

Comment 4

[H. Ebelt]

sorry for the circumstances. i meant the browser hangs! it only works entering
it manually ... on a website the link // will be rewritten to http:///

Comment 5

[u60234]

Dupe of bug 185663?

Comment 6

[Benedikt Kantus]

Yes, especially after reading http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185663#c6

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 185663 ***