40607 - Setting javascript location locks the browser

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 37463

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect, P3)

Description

[Yori Sakakura]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m16) Gecko/20000525
BuildID:    2000052508

Setting the location, location.href, window.location.href, etc. (those are the
only variants I tried) locks the browser (I have to kill the process, although I
haven't waited for longer than 5 minutes or so).

Doesn't seem to matter whether the javascript is typed into the location (as in
the submitted URL) or part of a script on the page.

Doesn't happen on m15 (I tried switching back to verify).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://slashdot.org/
2. Type javascript:location.href="/" into the location bar and hit return.



Actual Results:  Browser hangs; process must be killed.

Expected Results:  Browser reloads http://slashdot.org/

location.href scripts are sprinkled through web-app I'm working on, largely as a
development convenience in JSPs - easier to define a javascript function such as:

function reply()
{
var url = "discussion_create.jsp?<%= baseQuery %>&order=<%= order %>";
url += "&parent=<%= item.getId() %>";
url += "&<%= PSServletUtils.BACK_PARAM %>=<%= URLEncoder.encode( clientUrl + "?"
+ baseQuery + "&order=" + order + "&item=" + item.getId() ) %>";

location.href = url;
}

rather than:

<a href="discussion_create.jsp?<%= baseQuery %>&order=<%= order %>&parent=<%=
item.getId() %>"&<%= PSServletUtils.BACK_PARAM %>=<%= URLEncoder.encode(
clientUrl + "?" + baseQuery + "&order=" + order + "&item=" + item.getId() ) %>">
Reply</a>

Comment 1

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

[e-mail] is right: this is a dup of bug 37463.
I have looked at the stack traces on PC/Linux, build 2000052608, 
and they look the same as expected.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37463 ***

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

verif