476898 - fastFind (nsITypeAheadFind) causes browser to crash when used from extension

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Alex Milowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5

When trying to use fastFind on a XUL browser instance created via an extension, if the search string matches, the browser crashes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a browser instance via XUL and load a document.
2. Call browser.fastFind('xyzzy',false);
3. Watch the browser go away.
Actual Results:  
The browser crashed.

Expected Results:  
The method would return a status code.

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

Please attach a testcase and a stacktrace.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Alex, can you reproduce this with version 3.5 or higher?  (stack still needed)

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.x 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.