User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060919 Firefox/1.5.0.7 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060919 Firefox/1.5.0.7 Both precompiled 32bit and home-rolled amd64 versions completely hang machine when opening a specific page. The hang is due to the [probably] enormous mount of text in the textarea. The 32bit Windows Firefox does not crash or hang but is unable to correctly display the textarea contents. Looks garbled. Garbled behavior was also noticed on linux version prior to the textarea contents becoming larger and hanging. Hang = Xorg quits and the machine is no longer usable. Reset button. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open linked file. Actual Results: Complete machine hang. Expected Results: Display page with data in textarea. Ubuntu 6.06 Linux machine 2.6.18-rc7-g63b98080-dirty #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 19 17:44:16 CEST 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux Also tried with 2.6.17.11 (e)Links can "correctly" display the page (as much as a text-based browser can).

Textareas with lots of text are known to perform poorly and cause various sorts of problems. Did you search for duplicates?

Aye, but I didn't find anything that directly hung all of Xorg and the machine. Some complaints here and there of pressing the wrong keys in a textarea but nothing critical.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060919 Minefield/3.0a1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060813 Firefox/1.5.0.5 The page you gave did not crash my compute or browser though it did display garbled text. I think this is a dup of bug 228475. This bug involves the crashing you described.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 228475 ***