320762 - freeze when activating any pull-down selection field other than the location bar (text form, back button, etc.)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 319747

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[fwustner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

First noticed at http://www.google.com/.  When entering information in the google text input field, the auto-form selection menu appeared beneath the text input, and then firefox immediately froze up and required a force-quit.  Also noticed when clicking on the edge of the back-button, opening the selection drop-down window rather than just going back to the immediately-prior window.  The selection drop-down menu appears and then firefox imediately freezes, requiring force-quit.  This appears to happen only when there are two or more possible selections; only one selection on the menu does not cause a freeze-up.  Users of Windows and Linux have reported that this bug does not appear present in their versions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.View several web sites in succession.
2.Click the right edge of the back button.  The drop-down selection menu will freeze the program.

-OR-

1.With auto-form filling activated, enter several text items in a form, such as at a search engine like google.com
2.When enough prior entries are stored in the auto-form file, the drop-down selection menu will freeze the program.
Actual Results:  
The drop-down selection menu remains empty.  The mouse cursor will change into his "wait" form (a spinning rainbow-colored ball).  Firefox will remain frozen, requiring force-quit.  There are no further repercussions; Firefox can be reopened normally (until another such freeze-up occurs).

Expected Results:  
The drop-down selection menu should list possible choices, and the program should not freeze up and require force-quit.

No additional information

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 298502 ***

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 319747 ***