317455 - freeze if DOM branch is modified while viewed in DOM Inspector

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Other Applications :: DOM Inspector, defect)

Description

[lev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Whenever I inspect the DOM tree of a document using the DOM inspector, if any client-side code executes changing or removing the node I happen to be looking at, the whole browser freezes (including all other windows) and CPU use goes way up.

The only way I found to get out of this state is by manually killing all the firefox processes.

I'm sure this is a pretty difficult bug to encounter, but it seems to be very consistent, and hampers rich web application development quite a bit.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Can you test this with the latest version?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

Comment 2

[Peter Flynn (Oracle)]

This happened to me all the time on FF 1.0 (WinXP). But it's completely WFM with 1.5 -- I just tested using both removeChild() and innerHTML="" and was unable to make anything bad happen.

Maybe this bug should be marked 1.0 Branch only?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM per comment 2