Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago
I didn't know about it but yes, it's a Firefox 32 problem:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1070935
Original comment by marc.r...@gmail.com
on 24 Sep 2014 at 9:48
After being stuck in Firefox 31 for months, I finally found out what was
causing this hang... it was a regexp.
Two of them in the substitution list was using /(.+)*/ which causes an
overprocessing, that is, "find any string of any number of no or any number".
Using a /?/ instead fixes it. This happens even on Chrome too (with a replacing
userscript).
What is weird is that the JavaScript debugger never alerted an error, like
"invalid quantifier", probably because of the parenthesis.
However, I remember that this hang was already happening before I added this
regexp. Maybe the real bug was fixed in the most recent versions, but I was
using this freeze-causing regexp, and I couldn't know if it was fixed or not.
Original comment by brunolop...@gmail.com
on 10 Apr 2015 at 8:16
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
brunolop...@gmail.com
on 24 Sep 2014 at 5:30