282562 - using the search box at the top of the page often causes crashes. search for 'music online'

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andre LeBlanc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041121 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041121 Firefox/1.0

using the search box at the top of the page often causes crashes.  search for
'music online' 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to www.phpbbhacks.com
2. search for music online
3. crash

Actual Results:  
the entire firefox window disappeared. no error message.

Expected Results:  
apologized for closing 6 other tabs.

Comment 1

[Andre LeBlanc]

after a little more testing.  phpbbhacks.com in general causes random crashing
in firefox

Comment 2

[Joan Winsor]

I am using FireFox on a Mac with OSX.  Ever since I first downloaded version 1.0
trying to search bookmarks under "Manage Bookmarks" causes Firefox to crash. 
One letter can be entered into the search field, but adding a second or third
letter crashes the application.  It is REALLY inconvenient not to be able to
search bookmarks!!!

Comment 3

[Anthony Perritano]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I am using FireFox on a Mac with OSX.  Ever since I first downloaded version 1.0
> trying to search bookmarks under "Manage Bookmarks" causes Firefox to crash. 
> One letter can be entered into the search field, but adding a second or third
> letter crashes the application.  It is REALLY inconvenient not to be able to
> search bookmarks!!!

I too experience the same crashing with bookmark search. I am using OSX 10.3.8
with firefox 1.0.2

Comment 4

[Joan Winsor]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I am using FireFox on a Mac with OSX.  Ever since I first downloaded version 1.0
> trying to search bookmarks under "Manage Bookmarks" causes Firefox to crash. 
> One letter can be entered into the search field, but adding a second or third
> letter crashes the application.  

I see that I forgot to mention that the same was true in version 1.0.1 and
1.0.2.  I also meant to say that Talkback came up when this happened and I DID
report it via TalkBack several times.  It happens every time.  I have never been
able to search bookmarks in FireFox.

Comment 5

[Alan Batie]

This is still happening as of 1.0.6...

Comment 6

[Gulliver]

Anybody working on this?

Seems to be a duplicate of Bug 227975 ?

Comment 7

[Gulliver]

Still crashing Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060126 SeaMonkey/1.5a.

Comment 8

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Following the steps in comment 0, I don't see any crashing at all using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Ubuntu 6.10 and Mac OS X 10.4.9. With no crash log or talkback IDs, I'm going to close this bug as WFM. If you can reproduce the bug in comment 0 (not the random ones listed in other comments) using Firefox 2.0.0.3 with a new profile, please file a new bug with a crash log or talkback ID or, really, any more information.

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