Overview: If one or more <TABLE>tags are kept open (not closed with </TABLE>) till end of a document which has a complex nested-table structure, Mozilla and Viewer are crashing. WinNT task manager shows abnormal amount of memory consumption. Worse, the memory is not freed even if the document is loaded successfully, so if it does not crash the first time, it definitely will after a few more loads. The memory-not-being-freed problem is present even for correct HTML pages. Test Case: Open mozilla.exe. Maximize the window and go to http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=12835&showcomments=flat. The browser will probably crash, or the memory consumption will shoot up (This page contains an open table tag, see attachments: 12835.html is the original page, 12835.htm is the page with the table tag closed). Load a few more similar documents (e.g:http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=12842&showcomments=flat)and the browser will definitely crash. Other info: This problem is not there in M11. The problem is also present in viewer.exe System Info: Mozilla 1999112408, 2000022920, etc. on WinNT SP5 (PII with 64MB RAM) Attached: 12835.html (original), 12835.htm (corrected), crash log.

19991124 mozilla also crashes while loading developer.java.sun.com; M11 does not. probably related bug but I have not investigated this further. - BC.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18480 ***

verified duplicate of 18480 (omitting endtags is bad)