210004 - backspace in typeaheadfind freezes mozilla for 30 sec on large file

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Find In Page, defect)

Description

[Alexander Kruppa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030617
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030617

On the page http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/records/c120-355 , which is a text
file of 706890 bytes, hitting the Backspace key during a typeaheadfind freezes
Mozilla for about 30 seconds. The text typed so far must be found in the page,
i.e. "2," (without the "").


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load mentioned URL into Mozilla
2. Type "2," and press backspace key


Actual Results:  
Mozilla does freezes for about 30 seconds, then prints "Find stopped." in the
status bar.

Expected Results:  
Find the first match of the shortened search term (i.e. "2") and respond more
quickly.

Comment 1

[Manoj]

Works for me 

Mozilla Firebird 0.7+
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031108 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6.1

Comment 2

[Mark Stahl]

I've been having freeze problems on PC version of Netscape 7.1 too.  Perhaps
it's related to the nsSound?  See converstaion on bug 210209. 

Comment 3

[Alexander Kruppa]

I doubt it. I don't have any "audiofile" package installed, and this bug doesn't
freeze Mozilla solid as the audiofile bug does, but freezes it only for a
certain time.
I much rather believe that the very frequent occurance of the sting "2" in the
test case text makes the search code spend a long time looking for matches of
the shortened string.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 5

[Alexander Kruppa]

Bug is gone in newer releases. Closed as FIXED.

Comment 6

[Jason Bassford]

No specific bug / patch referred to as the fix.

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