285310 - Print and Print Preview freezes on certain pages containing CSS to do with printers.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ian Wilkinson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

The page at http://www.sgtwilko.f9.co.uk/inspectionSheet.html contains CSS so
DIVs only print, and do not show on screen.  With this line of CSS the html the
page will not get past the preparing to print popup, either from print or from
print preview.

A smaller file will print, also removing some of the CSS will also allow the
file to print.

This problem happens on Windows and on Linux (Moz 1.7.5).

Under Linux I noticed almost a gigabyte of memory being used by mozilla when
left to print for about 20 minutes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto http://www.sgtwilko.f9.co.uk/inspectionSheet.html
2. Click eiter print or print preview
3. wait until all the memory in your computer is taken

Actual Results:  
Mozilla freezes, you have to kill it.

Expected Results:  
Printed!

Comment 1

[Xanthor Sccas]

Confirm with Mozilla 1.8b1 on GNU/Linux

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Martijn, got time for a minimal testcase?

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

My debug build with the patch from bug 263825 doesn't give endless assertions
anymore with the testcase in print preview (although I still get a lot of
assertions).

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Well, it doesn't freeze for me anymore in the 20050323 trunk build, so this is
fixed, I think. But the print preview looks really odd. 
Probably better to file a new bug about that, not?

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yeah, if you can file a separate bug on that, that would be great.

Comment 7

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Actually, I'm beginning to think the printing/print preview of the url is
correct (it's more the css that is odd).
But the testcase looks odd on print preview. I've submitted bug 287702 for that.