350993 - firefox crashed when I pasted a *LOT* of words into TEXTAREA BOX in form.

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jacob]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

I've just copied *BIG BLOCK* of text, then i started pasting all the time
into the same TEXTAREA box. after 10-15 times (i dont' remember exactly) firefox crashed out :o

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy big block of text
2. paste into textarea box
3. do it again, and again, and again...

Actual Results:  
i had seen microsoft message that program crashed out, and firefox disappear.

Expected Results:  
show messagebox that text is too long or something.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Hm, I tried pasting my whole history.dat file (about 4 MB) in the text box and my computer reacted *very* slow with tens of seconds delay with so much data in its clipboard but no crash.

Could you provide a Talkback ID for the crash?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback

Comment 2

[Mark Romero]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 Firefox/2.0b2

WFM. I pasted a large amount of text into a textarea and had no crashing as stated by the reporter.

Comment 3

[Nicki]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

I have been experiencing this for over a year.

I have only experienced this on Neopets.com.  Firefox does not crash so I have no Talkback ID, but Firefox will hang and stop responding altogether when I paste more than 80K (in my case, my neopets webpage content) into the textarea on their website.

Comment 4

[Jack Greenfield]

This bug probably has a relationship to hardware; i.e. processor, RAM, etc.  Obviously, a slower computer would foul up the operation of pasting large amounts of text.
Info that might be helpful:
1. Amount of RAM when crash or freeze-up happens
2. A more exact amount of text entered when the crash happens.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman on Windows]

Jacob, are you still seeing this?