233828 - Mozilla hangs when displaying a div with overflow:auto inside a table

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Wladimir Palant]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

When making some tests with Bug 233808 I found out that Mozilla hangs on some
HTML pages - it doesn't display anything and the interface reacts very slow.
I've minimized the problem code, it turns out to be a div with fixed width
inside a table. It is important that the div has the style overflow:auto and
contains text without spaces that is longer than the specified width.

I've observed the same problem with official releases 1.4 and 1.5 as well. It
occures in both quirks mode and standard compilance mode.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the attachment.
Actual Results:  
The browser hangs.

Comment 1

[Wladimir Palant]

Attachment: minimal testcase

Comment 2

[Wladimir Palant]

Addition: if you remove the table, the div is displayed but without scrolling
regardless the overflow:auto style. I think it's the same bug.

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

WFM, build 20040210, Windows XP.

Comment 4

[Markus Fischer]

WFM, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
MultiZilla/1.6.0.1g

Comment 5

[Bernd]

reporter could you try a recent nightly, I have seen somthing similiar with an
old 1.6b release build, but cannot reproduce it with a recent nightly.

Comment 6

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WFM, 2004-02-09-08 trunk Linux

Comment 7

[Wladimir Palant]

Yes, seems to be fixed: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a)
Gecko/20040211
It doesn't hang any more but it doesn't show the scroll bar as well.

Comment 8

[Andrew Hagen]

WFM Win 98, trunk (pre 1.7 alpha) 2004021109.

Resolving WFM as per reporter's comment.

The scroll bar issue is another bug.