Closed Bug 270339 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Renaming a bookmark to a local file causes infinite loop

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: vesok, Assigned: vladimir+bm)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

After dragging a local file to the bookmarks toolbar and attempting to rename
the bookmark the CPU load goes to 50% (on HT cpu) for ~5 sec, then I am greeted
with "A script on this page is causing mozilla to run slowly. If it continues to
run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script?".
It I click cancel then the situation repeats. If I click OK (abort the script)
then the bookmark remains with its old name.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create file c:\temp.htm with the following content(4 lines):
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
<html lang=en>
<head><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>title</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>h1</H1></body></html>
2. Open windows explorer and drag file c:\temp.htm to the bookmarks toolbar. You
will end up with a button captioned "file:///C:/temp.htm"
3. Right click on that new button, select Properties and change the name to
"temp". Click OK

Actual Results:  
The CPU load goes high... see the details. 

Expected Results:  
Rename the button, i.e. change it's caption.

Note that there is no script in the htm file.
Workaround: Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> open the Bookmark Toolbar folder,
Right - Click -> Select "New Bookmark...", enter the name you want and
"file:///C:/temp.htm" in the location bar. Note that the bookmark created that
way is not renameable as well.
Assignee: vladimir → vladimir+bm
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Bug still exists (slightly altered in FF 1.0.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows
NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7)

Fixed in FF 1.5 Beta1 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) 
Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
We don't know what fixed this worksforme
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago → 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
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