304837 - Large HTML tables can cause no response (FireFox 1.0.6)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270392

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Smart01]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: 

If this URL (http://www.mistral.hu/arlista_kozos.html) viewed in Internet 
Explorer 6.0 (HTML site downloading time: ~10 sec, rendering time: 1 sec).

If the same URL viewed in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 the browser will hang up.
(HTML site downloading time ~sec, rendering time: no response, nothing happened 
after 2 minutes on 1.6 GHz AMD Athlon XP processor, proccess was terminated)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 (I'm using Hungarian version www.firefox.hu)
2. Open this website http://www.mistral.hu/arlista_kozos.html
3. And watch it. (In Windows Taskmanager the firefox.exe using 100% of CPU time)
(no spyware, adaware, virus or other malicious thing not found on the PC).

Actual Results:  
The appication using all CPU time, the HTML table will not rendered. 
Application hang up.

Expected Results:  
Need to render the HTML table. (can be viewed with IE)

No crash information. The process was terminated due to high CPU usage after 2 
minutes. On IE this process takes 1 sec.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Although the url is different, this is really a duplicate of bug 270392.
The pages are more or less identical (so profiling it would give similar results).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270392 ***