500887 - comments with multiple dashes not handled correctly, causes page to not render

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jim Michaels]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

comments with mutliple dashes like <!---- ---> show up in the broswer when left alone. if in combination with others, it can cause the rest of the page to not be rendered.  The page I listed has (to my knowledge) valid comments and they work fine in IE. everything between the <!-- and the --> are a comment. is that not supposed to be what is happening?  that is not what's happening with ff 3.0.11.

this phenomenon happens with other lengths. I think it was evens and odds were the problems.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.put in comment <!---- this will show up in browser if left by itself ---> 
2.experiment with 4's and 3's with 3 comments within your page.  may take 3 comments.  watch strange things happen while you do.
3.
Actual Results:  
comments appear and disappear in the browser depending on how many comments are there.  depending on the content, you may lose the rest of your page.

Expected Results:  
see the formatted page without the comments.

problem with the lexical analyzer?  I don't know anything about Mozilla's internals, but with a little background in compilers, my guess is the lexical analyzer needs to be corrected.

it does not cause a crash.