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

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:45:00PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> 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 &#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;.
> 
> 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 &#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;[....]

Looks like an infinite loop in the nsNativeUConvService.cpp in libxul...

Mike