Closed Bug 339752 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Forwarding large messages inline hangs or crashes Thunderbird 1.5.x

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 324521

People

(Reporter: pgoetz, Assigned: mscott)

Details

(Keywords: crash) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

When forwarding large messages inline (e.g. listserv digest), Thunderbird consistently either responds extremely slowly or crashes outright.  This problem did not exist in Thunderbird 1.07.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select large text message
2.Click on Forward
3.boom!
Could you install with talkback and get a talkback ID for the crash? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback
Keywords: crash
Version: unspecified → 1.5
Possible dupe of bug 336843.
Does turning of spell checking help? (-> bug 324521, fixed for 2.0)
(In reply to comment #3)
> Does turning of spell checking help? (-> bug 324521, fixed for 2.0)
> 

Yes!  Turning off "Enable Spell as you type" appears to fix the problem -- thanks.
Should be fixed in 2.0, then.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 324521 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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