272285 - search iterates repeatedly on very long page when string (not found) id pasted in search window

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When using the find function on a LONG page, if the string to find is pasted
into the find window and is not found there is a long wait. This appears to be
because the function parses the character string -- character by character as it
is pasted into the box, then searchs the page repeatedly for each character
concatenated to the string (internally), even though the string begin is not and
will not ever be found on the page. This is know because the first few
characters fail and repeat searchs with more trailing characters are futile.
This is particularly problematic when the page to be searched is very large.
i.e. several hundred thousand characters or more.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. bring up a LARGE page
2. cntl-F
3. paste in a string that will not be found except for the first character or
two, wait patiently while firefox iterates.

Actual Results:  
You will get bored.

Expected Results:  
failed permanently on the first few characters, ignoring additions to and
already failed string (search).

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Michael]

bug still present in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12)
Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Reproduces exactly the same as before.

Select a long page, paste a long string in the search box. The search will
iterate for EACH character pasted even though it does not match on the first few
characters of the search text. On a long page this leads to excessive delay and
resource consumption.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Michael, is this still an issue with the latest Firefox builds?

If not, please close this bug as WORKSFORME.

Thanks.

Comment 4

[Michael]

Appears to work correctly in 2.0.0.5

Comment 5

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

Changing resolution to WORKSFORME since it was not explicitly fixed.