451093 - Unicode string crashes browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 445711

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Mongler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

A unicode string that caused Firefox to crash was encountered on a website. Firefox also crashes when the string is copy/pasted elsewhere in the UI.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open page/file with string or paste string somewhere in the UI (location, search, etc.)
Actual Results:  
Crash

Expected Results:  
Accepted the input and rendered the unicode string

Also crashes on a clean install under a fresh Windows XP SP3 installation.

Comment 1

[Richard Mongler]

Attachment: example of unicode crash