309861 - Mozilla hangs completely when trying to view the URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 277208

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Rikard Bosnjakovic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414

The html-code in the URL ( http://bos.hack.org/mozilla-crash/ ) was found on a
community. The page works in Internet Explorer, but causes Mozilla to hang hard
and consumes all available CPU. The only way to exit it is to kill the process.

The html-code contains a bunch of marquee-tags and a center-tag after each line.
Ofcourse, the center-tags should not be there for the page to be valid, but they
do on the community. If I remove all center-tags, Mozilla does not hang, but the
marquees are not visible either.

Both this URL and the community-URL works in Internet Explorer without any problems.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make Mozilla go to http://bos.hack.org/mozilla-crash/
2. See 1.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla hangs. The only way to make it go unhanged is to kill the process.

Expected Results:  
I do not know. In Internet Explorer, the code shows a moving line of graphics,
much like "copper-bars" on the Amiga (anyone remembers them?), but in Mozilla,
nothing is shown even if the center-tags are removed.

Comment 1

[Magnus Holmgren]

Reproducible in Firefox 1.0.6 on Linux (Debian). Move to Core?

Comment 2

[Oskar Skoog]

Reproducible in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11)
Gecko/20050728.

Comment 3

[Martin Bengtsson]

Reproducible in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4)
Gecko/20050908 (No IDN) Firefox/1.4 ID:2005090806

Comment 4

[Christer Boräng]

Reproducible in Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.9)
Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

Comment 5

[Pierre Ossman]

Reproducible in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050915
Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.beta1 Firefox/1.4

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

dupe of "A lot of nested marquees can make Mozilla freeze"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 277208 ***

Comment 7

[OstGote!]

WFM with SeaMonkey TRUNK build 2005092305 (works, I see the colors)

confirmed with SeaMonkey 1.8 Branch build 2005092109 (but hangs only for several
seconds, after that SM works again, but does not display anything for that page)

It does not effect TRUNK builds, only 1.7 and 1.8 branch builds.

Note: The fix (see other bug) was only for TRUNK!

Comment 8

[Rikard Bosnjakovic]

This is a dupe, yes, but it is NOT resolved or fixed!

Comment 9

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

It is fixed on trunk, you can download trunk builds here:
http://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
This is really a duplicate of bug 277208.

Comment 10

[Rikard Bosnjakovic]

Is that a fix for Firefox only? I use the Mozilla-suite.

Comment 11

[Andrew Schultz]

SeaMonkey 1.0 and later do not have the bug
Mozilla 1.7.x will always have the bug

let's try this dupe thing again.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 277208 ***