294588 - This page crashes Firefox.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nicholas Retallack]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

And for good reason, it's quite crazy.  However, Firefox should be able to
interpret javascript well enough to avoid crashing, even with this much crazy
stuff going on.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to url (preferably with "block popups" feature turned off)
2. Click the link, or just wait
3. Wait a while, move the mouse around, click stuff, whatever

Actual Results:  
Firefox eventually stops responding and crashes.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should slow down or limit javascript that will cause it to crash, and
keep in control of what it's doing.

This site was linked to by rhizome.org, a big web `art` site.

Comment 1

[Gabriel Chadwick]

This works for using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050516 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.