425511 - about:cache gets broken, showing garbage

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[chrizilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

My about:cache listing is currently broken and shows garbage.

The first 40% or so of the list displays correctly and then the formatting gets broken at this point:
http://img138.imageshack.us/my.php?image=88124909ma1.png

The rest of the list is unformatted garbage .... with occasional super-sized words:
http://img368.imageshack.us/my.php?image=10112864dd4.png

... and often with lots of special characters:
http://img362.imageshack.us/my.php?image=60873691jj4.gif

I have no idea why, but am willing to give further information if someone of you guys asks me specific questions about that. I just don't which further informations could be helpful.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Comment 1

[chrizilla]

At the specific point where about:cache gets broken, there are a lot of backslashes \\\\\ (see first link). Maybe that's part of the reason?

Comment 2

[chrizilla]

Sorry, I did not see this when reporting the bug, but when going through the list of my cache entries I found several entries >170MB. Curious as I am, I verified on my hard drive's cache folder and the (single) biggest entry there has 31MB.

Comment 3

[:aceman]

This seems like a quite broken _CACHE_MAP_ file or _CACHE_00*_. Do you still see this on FF4 or later? Or has it since fixed itself?

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Please file a new bug if the problem still occurs in Firefox 7 or newer.  Thanks.