65060 - Middle-button-dragging with a large selection makes it impossible to enter other URLs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 65065

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Gunnar Wolf]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 alpha; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010110
BuildID:    20001011023

I downloaded today's build as a RPM (for RedHat 6.2/Alpha) from
http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/software/
I selected the whole contents of the table, and a middle-button drag in the
browser window (not in the URL dialog) made Mozilla try to load the URL
specified by all of the text - the console where I started Mozilla showed:
Error loading URL
http:///www.unam.mxNo%20more%20late-night%20visits%20to%20congested%20mirror%20sites!%20As%20a%20Red%20Hat%20Linux%206.1%20owner,%20you%20are%
(...)

Afterwards, I tried to specify other URLs, and Mozilla was irresponsive - I
could access documents with the buttons, but not giving the URLs.


Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
I suppose this is a bug with drag-and-drop - I am not familiar with Mozilla's
programming and architecture, but it seems to be a buffer overflow with URLs
that are too long. (check description for steps taken)

Actual Results:  The browser does not crash, but it does not respond to the URLs
I request anymore. I had to leave and restart the browser.

Expected Results:  Subsequent URL requests should load!

Have not tried it with multiple windows open - don't know if it crashes the
whole Mozilla program or just the current window/instance/whatever.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Marking a duplicate of bug 65065 which is much better phrased

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65065 ***

Comment 2

[Loco]

VERIFIED.