468386 - DIV with height greater than 8388599px does not display properly

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Matthew Russell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

There seem to be artificial heights that are placed on DIV elements.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Simply create a div such as this one in a page: <div style="background:yellow; height:8388599px">foobar</div>

2. Note that the content displays properly. 

3. Increase the pixel by 1 so that the value for height is 8388600px 

Actual Results:  
You'll see that the DIV no longer displays properly. There is only a little slice of yellow background that appears above the text


Expected Results:  
The container should have just grown by 1px and displayed as before

On a similar note, I found that once height increases beyond 17895697px scroll bars disappear all together.

Comment 1

[Damian Shaw [Quan]]

Isn't this essentially something like bug 215055 ?

Which will be fixed by bug 374980

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.