225463 - Hang if I open a large unread newsgroup and hold "n" for a while (maybe crash)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 67957

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Andrey Kiryanov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031023
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031023

Mozilla crashes after a few seconds of holding "n" (next unread message) while
reading a large newsgroup with lots of unread messages (> 500).
In my case it's a "cern.market" newsgroup available from news.cern.ch
Messages in this newsgroup are usually heavy (contain big image attachments).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a newsgroup
2.Hold "n" to scroll through unread messages

Actual Results:  
Crash

Expected Results:  
No crash

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Andrey Kiryanov]

With the latest available version of Mozilla (1.7.12 GTK2+Xft english build) the
behavior has changed. It does not crash anymore (not so often at least, maybe
because the bug was originally caught in GTK1 build which has faster interface).
But still after releasing the "n" key mozilla stucks - it can not open new
message boxes or groups, can not load any web pages. The progress bar scrolls
and nothing happens. Pressing the "stop" button doesn't help. One have to close
mozilla and open it again to work. So I think the bug (or its traces) is still
there :)

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

Could you please try the forthcoming SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Andrew, do you see this on linux?  I don't get a crash on windows.

But I do get a prompt after several seconds of holding down "N" of "please enter a username for news server access", with "nnnnn" in the input field.  perhaps related to bug 288977?  also on Thunderbird - suggesting problem in backend. Unable to find matching bug for this problem.

op: "Can't check right now, 'cause I don't have any available linux box. I'll try as soon as I can."

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

Wayne, I see the same behavior on linux as you do with both SM 1.1 (candidates) and Mozilla 1.7.12.  It does sound like bug 288977.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

confirming. 

marking dependency to bug 288977 - but the reporter doesn't respond so it needs to be investigated when this bug is fixed

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still see this version 3.0a1pre (2007082704)
dupe of bug 67957 comment 37? (see the comment)

Comment 9

[Andrew Schultz]

The "hang" from 67957 should just be a network hang (the app should be responsive, but no network activity should be possible (comment 16).

Comment 10

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

I held down n in secnews.netscape.com for a few seconds, then I did a netstat | grep nntp ... 70-ish connections were opened up. Thunderbird did not hang. This was in linux 2.0.0.15pre.

Per results, dupe to 67957