294521 - crash at startup because of huge number of xul windows being opened [@ 0x00000001] [@ nsPlaintextEditor::CanPaste]

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

I installed a XPI file:
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape8/english/8.0/windows/win32/xpi/remotedataso
urces.xpi
that caused the global browser.xpi to be replaced. so now when I start firefox 
I get a huge amount of new XUL windows with errors in them and in the end 
firefox crashes.

getting the error windows are fine since the browser.xpi properly contains 
references to unknown files etc, but the crash is not ok.

talkback IDs:
TB5913595M
TB5913373W

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Henrik, is this still reproducible? The XPI you linked to no longer works in
current trunk (and branch?) builds.

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Attachment: TB25038222K stack trace 25-Oct-2006

crash @00000001 starting Firefox with 62 tabs using MR-Tech Local Install including Session Saver functionality

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8" - Build ID: 2006102504

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

I guess we can morph this into a bug to be about Tony's stacktrace. Looks like bug 313975. (We run out of memory since they're so many windows).

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman on Windows]

If you open enough windows to run out of memory, you're going to crash, yes.  That's unlikely to change until we get our entire OOM story in order (see bug 427099 and its dependency tree).

As comment 3 notes, there happens to be a bug report on one specific crash that can happen, but fixing that will probably just reveal another crash.