207852 - selecting text in url bar freezes my cvs build

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Will Hansard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030601

The pre-compiled version of mozilla i can download works ok, but i've also been
building mozilla from cvs dozens of times over the past several months.
i remember this was a common bug many months ago, and i have read about it as
having been fixed.
i have been building from cvs, and both mozilla and phoenix exhibit the same
behavior.
This is on old redhat 6.2, but i've tried every different option i can in .mozconfig
over the months, and every version i compile freezes when i select text in the url
bar. if not the first time i try then the second.
I've tried about 50 different .mozconfig's, while updating cvs many times over
the months.  i updated yesterday, and it's the same thing.  
Just trying to put the cursor in the url box to type a url freezes mozilla.
With mozilla binary builds from the mozilla site, i occasionally lost the ability
to enter text in a form or in the url bar, but if i change workspaces, then change
back, i am then able to enter text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.cvs build on redhat 6.2 
2.select text in url bar
3.freez

Actual Results:  
freeze

Expected Results:  
let me enter text.

Comment 1

[Will Hansard]

sure enough, as soon i post it, i figure it out a few hours later.

the bug shows up when when mozilla is linked against xfree86 3.3.6.
when i changed my paths to make mozilla link against xfree86 4.3 instead
the bug is gone.   so guess it's something between xfree 3.3.6 and mozilla.

Comment 2

[K Berland]

I'm using Mozilla 1.5b
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 and I have the
same problem.

Only if I edit the URL location field before any other navigation.

weird.  (it happened in 1.4 release also.)

Redhat 9.0 on an ibm thinkpad x24.

It does not happen on my dell laptop.

Comment 3

[Alex Hirzel]

This is a dup...

Comment 4

[Will Hansard]

i was basically unsuccessful getting any mozilla past 1.2.1 to be stable on my
machine, downloaded binaries or cvs builds.  someone posted on linuxquestions
that the bug could be gotten around by disabling "find links as you type" in
preferences.  i've tried 1.4, 1.5 1.6 and 1.7 generally anyway, from cvs build's
i've saved over time, and that works for me.  not a crash from the url bar
since.  just one from selecting mail in a build that didn't have mail built in
or just didn't work.  i don't know which.  i just built 1.6, and it's perfect. 
disabling the find links of course.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

thanks, Will
marking WORKSFORME

Comment 6

[Will Hansard]

this bug i think is just part of bug 229252.  i wanted to make sure they were
cross referenced.