382573 - Firefox hangs/crashes in print or print preview in some webpages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 360224

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[intendentedelleacque]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Firefox hangs if I try to have a print or a print-preview of this page:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_guerra_mondiale

In my case, it just hangs, but I know other people that gets a crash.
We have made some tests and we have found that the problem happens with:

- Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Linux, Windows XP, Windows ME
- Seamonkey 1.1 on Mac OSX

Hanging/crashing happens also if you save the page on your disk (of course not just HTML, but the complete webpage) and try to open it.
Maybe the problem is related to the TABLE rendering, but I am not sure.

Notice that some people gets a hanging/crash also in this similar webpage
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivoluzione_francese
but personally I can't reproduce the bug in this case.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go in the URL above
2. click on Print or Print preview
Actual Results:  
Firefox hangs or crashes

Expected Results:  
Firefox should show the print preview or print the webpage

Comment 1

[Giacomo Magnini]

SM 1.1.2, Win XP: both pages in print preview will bring CPU utilization to 97-99%, with memory occupation raising 200kB/sec circa. When physical memory is exhausted, the system will start to swap in an endless loop.

SM 1.5a/2.0a1pre, linux: trunk code seems immune to this bug, since both pages in print preview show up with no problem at all.