[Bug 738437] [NEW] firefox "Warning: Unresponsive script" dialog fails to wrap text in URL path

[Eliah Kagan]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

On a Maverick i386 system with firefox 3.6.15+build1+nobinonly-
0ubuntu0.10.10.1, Firefox's "Warning: Unresponsive script" dialog
wrapped text (i.e. inserted a line break) before a slash in the URL's
path, but did not wrap any subsequent text, perhaps because it did not
contain any further / characters. The attached screenshot shows the
problem. A look at the workspace switcher panel applet at the lower-
right corner of the screen reveals that, due to this failure to wrap
text, the "Warning: Unresponsive script" dialog box was three times as
wide as the desktop itself. It was possible to drag the dialog box to
the left in order to see the rest of the URL and click the buttons, but
this is a nuisance and that workaround (and others) would likely not be
apparent to novices. Furthermore, that Firefox will wrap a URL at all in
this dialog box (i.e. at slashes where appropriate, and possibly under
other conditions) suggests that the intent is to ensure that it remains
readable, which at minimum I think indicates that the dialog box should
not contain lines rendered longer than the width of the screen's
viewable area.

I do not know JavaScript, so I cannot easily reproduce this problem and
determine precisely under what conditions it occurs or whether or not it
is specific to Ubuntu. I doubt it only happens in Ubuntu, but since I
cannot be sure of that, I have not marked it as affecting the upstream
project Firefox, nor have I reported this upstream.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: firefox 3.6.15+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 19 17:21:43 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.15/firefox
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.15+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.15+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.15+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
InterpreterPath: /bin/dash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick

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Title:
  firefox "Warning: Unresponsive script" dialog fails to wrap text in
  URL path