882150 - Firefox crashes trying to print or preview a page which can't avoid a page break

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Print Preview, defect)

Description

[Mario *LigH* Rohkrämer]

Attachment: contains a HTML and CSS file which provoke the crash; simpler samples did not provoke it

User Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.15

Steps to reproduce:

I created a page with several long tables using the CSS attribute "page-break-inside: avoid;". One of them got so many rows that it became longer than one page when printed.


Actual results:

Trying to print this page, or to show a print preview, Firefox 21.0 Win32 locks up preparing the layout if the zoom is big enough that one table is longer than one page to be printed on. This crash is not caught by any crash guard.


Expected results:

If the page break inside a block element is inevitable, e.g. because it is longer than a page, a page break has to be forced where it is necessary, but the browser must not crash. This works in many cases, but not for this specific page.

Comment 1

[Scoobidiver (away)]

It hangs also on Nightly.

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WFM, in Nightly 32.0a1 (2014-06-07) on Linux64 at various zoom-levels.
Please reopen the bug if you can reproduce in a recent version of Firefox.
Thanks.

Comment 3

[j.j.]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
WFM too in Nightly