237224 - Accepts continuous input of too many characters into Name field resulting in unreasonable behavior.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 203964

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Hariprasad Kantubhukta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

The Name field accepts continuous input of too many characters resulting in
unreasonable behavior like browser crashes.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1) Open a website.
2) Go to Add Bookmark feature.
3) Try to Input too many characters into the Name field. Input can be continuous
typing (pasting) in of some thousands of characters.  

Actual Results:  

Actual result: 
Input characters superimpose one over the other.
Prolonged input resulted in browser and system crashes. 


Expected Results:  
Expected result:
Should not allow too much input. Can also provide an alert when we try to enter
too many characters.


During follow up tests I found that the bug is reproducible in many of the input
text fields of Firefox.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

another one of these.  I guess we could/should limit these somehow, maybe just a
static value declared somewhere and do maxlength="constant" for the textboxes in
the UI...

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

IMO, this is a dup of bug 203964.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 237160 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I agree with Jesse here.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203964 ***

Comment 5

[Alex Hirzel]

v

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change