927919 - about:cache-entry has hexdump of the full file → entries for large/big/huge files can freeze/hang/crash Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect, P5)

Description

[[:Aleksej]]

2013-10-17-03-02-01-mozilla-central-firefox-27.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64

Steps to reproduce:
1. Load a big (3 MB or more) file.  Loading a video puts it into a cache immediately; downloading a Firefox usually does not for me.
2. Open about:cache and find the entry for the file.

Actual results:
The entry shows a hex dump for all 3 or more MB. Particularly big files cause stability issues.

Expected results:
There is no unexpected huge hex dump.



2008-07-01-04-mozilla-central-firefox-3.1a1pre.en-US.linux-x86_64 seems to have the problem, too, but bug 421828 was about something else.  If I just save the entry, I get a huge .xhtml.part file; that seems to WFM in the latest Nightly.  Maybe this bug I am filing may be considered a duplicate of bug 424307's duplicates bug 424307 and bug 428419.

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258

Comment 2

[Negritas Sergiu, Desktop QA]

Hello! I have tried to reproduce the issue using firefox 96.0a1 on Ubuntu 20, unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce the issue with the STR provided in the description.

Marking this issue as RESOLVED->WFM since there wasn't any activity in the past years, if the issue is still valid please feel free to reopen this issue or file another one.

Thank you!