73272 - browsers cannot be stopped while reading huge site

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 91795

(Core :: Networking, defect, P2)

Description

[Max Gilead]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.8.1)
BuildID:    2001032311

Browser cannot be stopped while receiving huge (unlimited) amounts of data.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter above URL

Actual Results:  Browser GUI is unresponsible and don't show again when window
is hidden and showed again.

Expected Results:  GUI is responsive, browser can be stopped by pressing 'Stop'
button.

There is a PHP script that enters an infinite loop and sends data to browser
infinitely.
This is obvious bug in my script but this clearly demonstates bug in Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Guillaume Filion]

I can reproduce this on my PowerMac G3 running Mac OS 8.6 using Build 
032308. A force quit was needed to regain control of the Mac.

Confirming bug and setting Platform/OS to All/All.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Blocks bug 30942, "Browser should remain responsive during most infinite loops".

Networking?

Comment 3

[clayton]

Nominating for nsbeta1.  Please consider for + if UI unresponsive on large but
still reasonable pages.  - if this is truly an edge case.  Thanks!

Comment 4

[benc]

Open Networking bugs, qa=tever -> qa to me.

Comment 5

[Gagan]

->darin

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

sounds bad... will look at this for mozilla 0.9.9

Comment 7

[Darin Fisher]

i suspect the real problem here is the fact that we don't put hard limits on the
size of cached data.  gordon is working on a fix for this.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91795 ***