603691 - find in page freezes the browser regularly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

sometime in the last few weeks, this has started:

1. ctrl+F
2. start typing

Expected: type as many characters as i want, textfield fills with them

Actual: after the 3rd (usually, sometimes up to the 5th), the textfield stops showing the characters i'm typing, and the browser is hung for a second or two.

after that initial hang, everything is fine.

maybe spellcheck? maybe autocomplete?

Comment 1

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Requesting blocking due to hang. If we get confirmation from others, block it should.

Comment 2

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

Can you shark/profile this? I can't reproduce it in a quick test here. Speculatively blocking since hanging in FAYT is a significant regression. Need some reliable STR though, so flagging qawanted and regressionwindow-wanted

Comment 3

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Predictably, now that I have reported the bug, I am not able to reproduce it.

Comment 4

[viceic]

I'm able to reproduce it everytime. Ctrl-F, start typing and while the string matches, everything is ok. When the added character doesn't match anymore, firefox freezes and must be killed.

Comment 5

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Regression range would be great.

I haven't seen the problem myself, and I use FAYT a lot.

Comment 6

[David Dahl :ddahl]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Regression range would be great.
> 
> I haven't seen the problem myself, and I use FAYT a lot.

Ditto. If you can, post a url that you visited while this happened. I have not seen this and I think I find in content 3 - 4 times an hour.

Comment 7

[(no longer active)]

This bug seemingly has not been reproduced by anybody since it was reported, is not WFM, blocks betaN, and is assigned to nobody.

I assert that one of the above needs to change.  I suggest -> WFM.

Comment 8

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

I still see it sometimes, I just keep forgetting to make a note of the URL when it happens. It could be an add-on I have is causing it, if nobody else is seeing it :P

Also, in reply to comment #2: I can't profile it since it is not reproducible on-demand, and only lasts a couple of seconds.

Comment 9

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I still see it sometimes, I just keep forgetting to make a note of the URL when
> it happens. It could be an add-on I have is causing it, if nobody else is
> seeing it :P

Can you try running Firefox with all extensions disabled  so that we can determine whether this is true or not?

Comment 10

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

Notes from the Grand Retriage: without STR, can't take it as a blocker.

Comment 11

[Vlad [QA]]

Works For Me on:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110526 Firefox/6.0a2

*Note: I cannot see the issue on the latest Aurora. Nominating this bug for Resolved if the issue is not present anymore. Thanks