787664 - Out of memory by including lots of huge iframes

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Boev Vadim Aleksandrovich]

Attachment: bag iframe.htm

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

Procedure:

1. A_test_log.txt create a file in which a lot of text (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. ....................................)

2. Add to page a lot iframe (<iframe src="A_test_log.txt"> </ iframe>)

3. Run bag iframe.htm





Actual results:

browser crash


Expected results:

ordinary browser operation


P.S. Do not  attached A_test_log.txt due to the high weight of the file.

Comment 1

[Boev Vadim Aleksandrovich]

bp-c117222a-b1e9-4b3f-8d11-dfba92120901

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

You ran Firefox out of memory and it crashed in self-defense. Not nice, but not exploitable except as an annoyance.

Comment 3

[Cosmin Muntean [:cmuntean], Ecosystem QA]

Hi  Boev, 

I have tested the mentioned issues on latest Firefox release (43.0.4) and latest Nightly (46.0a1) and could not reproduce it. Followed your provided steps, created a file “.txt” with a lot of text, and a page ".htm" with 1500 iframes and run it but the browser didn't crash. Indeed It took some time until the page was loaded.
Also I have ceated another ".txt" file with your attached iframes after. When I opened it, the browser froze for a while but it recovered after.

Firefox: 43.0.4, Build ID:20160105164030, User Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Firefox: 46.0a1, Build ID:20160107030235, User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0

Can you please test this on the latest Firefox release (43.0.4) or latest Nightly (46.0a1, https://nightly.mozilla.org/) and tell me if this still reproduces for you ? When doing this please use a new fresh Firefox profile (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-problems). 

Thanks,
Cosmin.

Comment 4

[Cosmin Muntean [:cmuntean], Ecosystem QA]

Considering the fact that the reporter did not provided more information on my request, I will mark this issue as resolved - worksforme. 
If you can still reproduce this, feel free to reopen it and provide the requested information.

Thanks,
Cosmin.