344839 - Hang Bug -- Large Text Lines

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 344895

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060710 Firefox/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060710 Firefox/2.0b1

Large and separated lines of text pasted into PasteBin will cause FireFox to hang/crash.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Grab around 200 lines of code from any particular part of the FireFox source
2.  Paste it into the dialog in PasteBin

Actual Results:  
FireFox will hang

Expected Results:  
FireFox should not hang

This also happens in Thunderbird strangely enough.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Ria, I think you know which bug this is a dupe of.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

One of Brett's spell checker bugs I think, presumably Bug 340326.
Maybe the checker should be turned off automatically when it exceeds a certain amount of characters? Although I see that it only spell checks the first 50 lines.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 340326 ***

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

There appears to be a slight difference between bug 340326 and bug 344895 :).

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 344895 ***