654602 - In 64-bit builds, crash reporter's textbox lacks vertical scrollbar & grows wider instead of wrapping text at newlines

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screencast of bug (Nightly)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
 1. Crash (e.g. with crashmenow)
 2. Type a lot of text into the crash reporter's comment box. Try an especially long word at the end of a line.

EXPECTED RESULTS: Textbox shouldn't grow wider. Text should wrap.
ACTUAL RESULTS: Textbox grows wider.

See attached screencast.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110503 Firefox/6.0a1

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

This is a regression w.r.t. Firefox 3.6 -- Firefox 3.6.17 yields EXPECTED RESULTS.  Unlike my nightly, it also shows a scrollbar on the right of the textbox by default.

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screencast of expected behavior (Firefox 3.6)

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Actually, I get EXPECTED RESULTS in x86 Nightly (on my 64-bit machine):
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110503 Firefox/6.0a1

In that build, we show a vertical scrollbar by default (like in the 3.6 screencast), and the text-wrapping appears to be correct.

So this seems to only be an issue with 64-bit linux builds.

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Odd. We don't have any 64-bit 3.6 builds kicking around, do we?

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

We do[1], but crash-me-now (version "(for Firefox older than 4.0b1)") doesn't actually cause any crashes in 64-bit 3.6 builds, so I can't easily trigger the crash reporter dialog.

But I suppose I can just find a crasher bug that's fixed on trunk but still broken on 3.6...

[1]
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2011-05-04-03-mozilla-1.9.2/firefox-3.6.18pre.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

Comment 6

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

On Linux, you can simply kill -ABRT the Firefox process to trigger Breakpad.

Comment 7

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Of course! I've been using that to get backtraces for a hang over on bug 653330, and meanwhile I completely forgot about that here. :)

So: This bug does indeed affect 64-bit Firefox 3.6 builds.

Comment 8

[Alex Franchuk [:afranchuk]]

This is not an issue anymore.