386941 - Invoking DOM Inspector in Composer Windows causes Seamonkey to hang

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Francis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0

When using composer to create a web page if the user accidentally presses CTRL-SHIFT-I the DOM inspector pops up blank and SeaMonkey then hangs forever. All SeaMonkey windows (browsers, email etc.) are affected. Trying to close the DOM Inspector window brings up the Windows XP "xxx is not responding" message and offers to close offending application. This kills all of SeaMonkey not just the DOM window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a composer window
2.Type something in
3.Press CTRL-SHIFT-I
Actual Results:  
DOM Inspector window opens and Seamonkey hangs

Expected Results:  
Either the DOM inspector should open properly or it should not open at all.

This may be related to stuff discussed here: 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109682#c16

Comment 1

[Bengt-Erik Soderstrom]

Tested this in my Linux build : (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/200707051111 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre)

There it works fine and no problems

Comment 2

[Francis]

A bit more checking. step 3 in the steps to reproduce should be

Type in some text, pressing CTRL-SHIFT-I in the middle and continue typing rapidly. 

It looks to me like the problem is due to the additional characters being entered as the DOM inspector is starting up. If you just press CTRL-SHIFT-I and wait the problem does not occur.

It should be noted that the way I discovered the bug was to try to type in a sentence containing an uppercase I and accidentally hitting both shift and crtl at the same time. 

Comment 3

[Arun Prasannan (polar)]

1.1.9 does not crash. Please reopen this report if you still experience this issue with the latest release. Thanks.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/

Comment 4

[Francis]

Agree . Cannot reproduce in 1.1.9