Overview Description: In a SELECT menu created and added to the document body via JavaScript and the DOM methods while the document is still being loaded, selecting the second option causes the browser to crash. I am attaching a test case demonstrating this problem. Actual Results: browser crashes Expected Results: browser selects option Build Date & Platform Bug Found: Linux 2000-04-06-08 Additional Builds and Platforms Tested On: Linux M14, on which this problem does not occur. Additional Information: Bug 34893 is based on the same code snippet, and a remark has been made in that bug that JavaScript code that runs while the page is being loaded should not be allowed to modify the document body (except perhaps via document.write). Perhaps the problem here is just allowing an illegal operation, and the solution is to throw an error on any attempt to modify the DOM tree via appendChild while the document is still loading.

Usually, I don't object to having each issue have its own bug, but this is really the same bug as 34893. 34893 is so messed up that this issue will go away when that is fixed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34893 ***

Looks like the same bug all right. It works for me when the other one does and fails when the other one fails. Verifying.