264747 - Firefox crashes when using Typeaheadfind

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264683

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Volkmar W. Pogatzki]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041016 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041016 Firefox/1.0

Firefox crashes when using Typeaheadfind.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox from a clean profile
2. Customize Preferences, Advanced, Accessability
   Checkmark "Begin finding when you begin typing"
3. Visit page http://forums.mozillazine.org
4. Type "Buil"
5. Found and marked "Firefox Builds"
6. Hit ENTER button

Actual Results:  
Crash

Expected Results:  
Connect to http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=23

Comment 1

[Volkmar W. Pogatzki]

Second time trying to request "blocking-aviary1.0 ?"
Didn't work first time.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041017 Firefox/1.0

WFM

hitting enter simply focussus the next item found

Comment 3

[lmulder]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041016
Firefox/1.0  

It ONLY works for me when I start the search using a "/",  but when I omit the
slash and just start typing "buil" Firefix stops responding while trying to go
to the active link.

The expected behaviour (I think..) should be a continued search for the next
occurence of "Buil"   FF becomes completely unresponsive, but can be closed
normally.  The process however keeps running, so before restarting FF you have
to end the process using Windows taskmanager.

I'm using Windows Home edition, including SP2 

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

I have

accessibility.typeaheadfind false
accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart false

and they seem to prevent me from getting into any trouble
from all the FAYT bugs that are posted I can't reproduce a single one

Comment 5

[Volkmar W. Pogatzki]

Having a look at the filesize of that build which has increased by 52% from one
day's build to the other's, I'm not so much surprised about mysterious behaviour
(also Extemsion Manager is broken again and again when having a build with an
abnormal filesize).

ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2004-10-15-09-0.9/
-rwxrwxr-x   1 1004     7753     8553417 Oct 15 12:44
firefox-0.10.en-US.linux-i686.installer.tar.gz
-rwxrwxr-x   1 1004     7753     8208277 Oct 15 12:47
firefox-0.10.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
drwxrwxr-x   2 1004     7753        4096 Oct 15 12:45 linux-xpi

ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2004-10-16-09-0.9/
-rwxrwxr-x   1 1004     7753     8567016 Oct 16 12:32
firefox-1.0.en-US.linux-i686.installer.tar.gz
-rwxrwxr-x   1 1004     7753    12511138 Oct 16 12:35
firefox-1.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
drwxrwxr-x   2 1004     7753        4096 Oct 16 12:34 linux-xpi

Did somebody try the installer build?

Comment 6

[Jim Ginn]

I can reproduce this bug, but only under certain circumstances.

1) The selected text must be a hyperlink.
2) The crash is initiated by typing with accessibility.typeaheadfind set to true
or typing ' to activate links only find as you type and then pressing enter on a
selected link.

Using the findbar or / seems to work fine. 
Oct. 16 Windows Installer build.

Comment 7

[Anders Pedersen]

I can reproduce this on Windows also.

- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041017
Firefox/1.0
- Fresh install, no extensions
- Windows XP Pro

Comment 8

[Volkmar W. Pogatzki]

Changing to "All".

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

firefox crashed right after I hit Enter to follow a found (focused) link.

http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=1359250

no symbols in that stack trace, though. :-\

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

I'm pretty sure this is just a dup of the bug dbaron owns.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264683 ***

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

are you sure this is a dup? the page I tested on was
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org, which has neither plugin content nor popup windows.