[2174] Firefox freezes because of ABP bug

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kanevbg
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[2174] Firefox freezes because of ABP bug

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Reproduce steps:
1. Install fresh Firefox and install ABP.
2. Create HTML file with following content:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="de">
	<head>

		<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="http://site.com/skin/m/1426086915/skin/frontend/base/default/css/widgets.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/dededededede/css/checkoutbyamazon.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/deded/allreviews/allreviews.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/css/dededede_searchindex.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/dededededede/css/checkoutbyamazon.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/deded/allreviews/allreviews.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/css/dededede_searchindex.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/dededededede/css/checkoutbyamazon.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/deded/allreviews/allreviews.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/css/dededede_searchindex.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/dededededede/css/checkoutbyamazon.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/deded/allreviews/allreviews.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/css/dededede_searchindex.css,/skin/frontend/base/default/css/deerrrrr/ajaxdsadsadaslogin/ajaxlogin.css" media="all"/>

	</head>
	<body></body>
</html>
3. Open the HTML in Firefox and it will freeze.

Without ABP, Firefox will not freeze. The problem is the non typical CSS href
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mapx
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Re: Firefox freezes because of ADP bug

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I filled an issue on the bug tracker: reproducible for both firefox and chrome
https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/2174
kanevbg
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Re: [2174] Firefox freezes because of ABP bug

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Just wish to note that this kind of URL will result in the bug without matter where it is found in the DOM (if it is parsed to the extension for filtering) images src, links hrefs, e.t.c.
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mapx
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Re: [2174] Firefox freezes because of ABP bug

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you can comment directly in that ticket on the bug tracker (you need to register there your user)
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Re: [2174] Firefox freezes because of ABP bug

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using the last dev build for firefox it seems the issue was fixed
devbuilds/adblockplus/00latest.xpi
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