292130 - freezes up on large slashdot threads if I have moderator points (too many popup menus?)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bob MacCallum]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

If you have moderator points, then slashdot gives you a pull-down menu below
each comment.  On a large thread (I think with >>500 comments) that means many
menus.  I think Firefox can't cope with them.  The cursor goes to a
cursor-plus-black-and-white-spinning-disc and if you do a "Quit Firefox" the
window disappears but the application menu bar remains and has to be killed in a
more violent manner.

The only extension I have is NukeEverything.





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Wait until you get slashdot moderator points
2. Go to a popular topic
3. Firefox is in trouble already.
4. quit and kill firefox
5. Go to slashdot again
6. Use up all moderator points on a less popular topic (<100 comments)
7. Go back to popular thread, Firefox behaves fine.


I've only done this once (Moderator points don't come very often).
Actual Results:  
see above.

Expected Results:  
I suppose Firefox should be able to handle a few thousand pop-up menus.

I couldn't find any crash logs, and Talkback didn't come up.

Extensions: just NukeEverything.

256Mb RAM

OS X 10.2.8

Comment 1

[Bob MacCallum]

More info:

I just got mod points again and managed to reproduce the problem with this story

  http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/28/2214245

Firefox froze after I changed the score threshold to -1 and hit the 'change' button.

I guess the best way to test this would be to create a page full of the form
elements that seem to be the problem:

<SELECT NAME="reason_12381416">
	<OPTION VALUE="0">Normal</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="1">Offtopic</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="2">Flamebait</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="3">Troll</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="4">Redundant</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="5">Insightful</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="6">Interesting</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="7">Informative</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="8">Funny</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="9">Overrated</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="10">Underrated</OPTION>
</SELECT>

in the slashdot page they are in a large table.

I don't have time to make such a test-page today.

cheers,
Bob.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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