590269 - "location=location;alert()" causes infinite loop/stack of dialogs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase (will force you to kill firefox-bin)

Originally reported by xu shaopei in bug 587533.

On Linux (Firefox 3.6.8), this testcase causes an infinite number of alert dialogs to appear at the same time.  In theory this could lead to an OOM crash.  On Mac, it causes a loop of dialogs, which is closer to what I'd expect.

One of the proposed fixes in bug 529594 might fix this testcase, but I'm not sure it would be a complete fix.  A fix for bug 59314 would take care of it neatly.

Comment 1

[O. Atsushi (Torisugari)]

(In reply to Jesse Ruderman from comment #0)
> A fix for bug 59314 would take care of it neatly.

And now WFM, probably because of bug 59314's fix.

Comment 2

[Ronald Tilby]

The testcase does not crash for me using Firefox 41.0.2 on Windows 10 64 bit.
Should this bug be closed?

Comment 3

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

Unable to reproduce in current versions.