Bug#424042: epiphany-browser: "File"->"Save As..." causes browser to freeze and to eat all my memory

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 2.18.1-2
Severity: important

Hi,

When saving a page to disk with epiphany, the browser hangs and starts
writing a huge file filled with      .

I can save the same page with iceweasel without problem.

This is reproducible easily (nearly 100%) with big pages (an example is
http://lwn.net/Articles/231896/bigpage ).

The beginning of the output file is normal, but then something breaks.
With the URL above:
Church of the Subgenius, with its slogan           [....]

This also happens with version 2.14.3-6.

While discussing how cool epiphany is with a friend, he mentionned this
bug, so it's clearly not a problem with my laptop (bad memory, etc).

Killing epiphany with -9 allows to restore the situation. However, if
the user waits to long before killing epiphany, epiphany's memory usage
grows and kills your system.

Lucas.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  dbus                      1.0.2-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                    2.16.1-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme          2.18.0-2       GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  iso-codes                 1.0a-1         ISO language, territory, currency 
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.19-3       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.18.0-2       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.18.0-2       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.18.0-5       The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.5-7          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.4.6-1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.0.2-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.73-2         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1            2.4.2-1.2      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.2.1-5        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.1.1-21     GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4               2.16.1-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.6.0-4      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.12.12-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.14.3-2       Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-keyring0         0.8.1-2        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0               2.18.0-4       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.14.0-2       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.18.1-2       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            1:2.18.1-2     GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.10.12-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   1:1.0.3-2      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmozjs0d                1.8.0.11-2     The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip
ii  libnspr4-0d               1.8.0.11-2     NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.14.7-0.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.16.4-1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                  1.10-3         lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    1:1.0.2-2      X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.9-1          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc++6                4.1.1-21       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1               1.1.7-4        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.1-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                1:4.0.1-5      X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                    1:1.0.1-4      X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1              1:1.0.1-4.1    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                   2.6.28.dfsg-1  GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.2.1-1      X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.1-3      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1                1.1.20-1       XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxul0d                  1.8.0.11-2     Gecko engine library
ii  python2.4                 2.4.4-3        An interactive high-level object-o
ii  xulrunner-gnome-support   1.8.0.11-2     Support for Gnome in xulrunner app
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
ii  epiphany-extensions           2.18.1-2   Extensions for Epiphany web browse
ii  yelp                          2.14.3-2   Help browser for GNOME 2

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