924748 - Browser Console makes GNOME Shell crash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 921966

(DevTools :: Console, defect, P2)

Description

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Copying some code in the Browser Console makes the console window grow. If you copy enough code, the window becomes so big that GNOME Shell crashes.

The console would be more comfortable to use if its window didn't grow.

Comment 1

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

(In reply to Marco Castelluccio [:marco] from comment #0)
> Copying some code in the Browser Console makes the console window grow. If
> you copy enough code, the window becomes so big that GNOME Shell crashes.
> 
> The console would be more comfortable to use if its window didn't grow.

Which version of Firefox do you use?

How do you copy code?

What do you mean by "window becomes big"?

Comment 2

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

(In reply to Paul Rouget [:paul] from comment #1)
> (In reply to Marco Castelluccio [:marco] from comment #0)
> > Copying some code in the Browser Console makes the console window grow. If
> > you copy enough code, the window becomes so big that GNOME Shell crashes.
> > 
> > The console would be more comfortable to use if its window didn't grow.
> 
> Which version of Firefox do you use?

Nightly.

> How do you copy code?

What do you mean? I select the code that I want to copy from an external editor, press Ctrl+C, then focus the Browser Console and press Ctrl+V.

> What do you mean by "window becomes big"?

The window height goes beyond the monitor size. The crash is probably due to a GNOME Shell bug, but the height increase is annoying anyway.

Comment 3

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Unity has a similar issue as well, window size keeps changing, but it moves towards the bottom of the screen and eventually disappears outside of the viewport. Reminds me of the old panel bug on Linux where it would move on its own.

Comment 4

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

Ouch. I wasn't aware the browser console window can grow on its own...