278005 - infinite loop, when iframe is created in framed page.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ryan Hughes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111 Firefox/1.0+

In a page that has frames on it, using javascript to create an iframe causes
mozilla to enter into some sort of an infinite loop.  It says "Loading..." and
the wheel keeps circling.  It hits the CPU harder.  

Other than that, everything seems to work.  The rest of the JS on a page, the
browser interface, ...  It just goes into some sort of an infinite loop.

This only happens if the iframe is created in the onload function, or a function
called by it.  Therefore, a good workaround is to call the iframe-creating
function with a setInterval of 0ms.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  In a page inside of a frameset, create a funciton to be called with the
page's onload.  Let's call that function init()

2.  Have init() create an iframe (with any src) and attach it to the body. 

Actual Results:  
The title of the page is always "Loading..." and the little circle keeps on
moving around.  It hits the CPU harder, evidently in an infinite loop.

Expected Results:  
Recognized that it has finished loading the page, and quit drawing CPU resources.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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