546029 - Every time I type a large message into Facebook's mail system text box, the backspace key will crash Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7

When typing a large message into Facebook's mail system text box, the backspace key will crash Firefox.

Any data that was typed into the text box will be lost.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Log into facebook
2.Navigate to reply to a message in mail system
3.Click inside text entry box
4.Press and hold enter key until scroll bar shrinking slows (aprox 10 Secs)
5.Press and hold backspace key until Firefox crashes.
Actual Results:  
100% crash rate if enter key is held down for at least 10 secs

Expected Results:  
backspace to beginning of message

Internet Explorer does not reproduce this error.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report please.
does this happen in firefox 3.6?

Comment 2

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just updated to 3.6 problem solved.  Thanks

Comment 3

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update to 3.6 fixes

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

WFM then. We don't know what bug was fixed that changed this