22603 - Follow CNN news story, click Back, follow another story = CRASH!

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[scott]

This one is 100% reproducable for me.  It only seems to occur on CNN's website.

Click on a news story that isn't one of the headlines (in other words, one of
the stories in the categories, such as "World", "US", etc.).  Click on the Back
button to return to the main CNN page.  Now follow another such story (same or
different, doesn't matter).  Mozilla will immediately crash even before the page
starts loading.

I'm using M12.

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

This is not reproducible if either the [Stop] button is pressed on each
page before moving to the next, or each page is allowed to finish loading
before moving on to the next. The crash would seem to be related to
known problems with going forward and back while pages are not completely
loaded.

This *may* be a DUP of bug 18798 "[WEBSHELL] Crash in restoring frame state
after hitting back" In that bug the crash happens because bugzilla pages
have enough form controls to slow down frame state restoration, so SH history
and parsing get out of sync.

As well as on CNN pages, I can get a crash every time with either back,back
or back,forward on Slashdot pages. I'm guessing that this is the same issue,
just in this case it's the sheer complexity of the page, not the number of
form controls, that slows things down enough to get out of sync.

Cc-ing [e-mail] to query if that inference makes any sense.

Comment 2

[leger]

Updating QA Contact.  tever, can you play around with cnn site with today's
build.  If we are no longer crashing moving around, please Verified/WorksForme.

Comment 3

[Tom Everingham]

Not seeing any crashes related to using forward/back buttons on 2000011908 NT
build.  Marking Worksforme.

Comment 4

[Tom Everingham]

verified