Bug 78279 – The stats page of a wordpress hosted blog hangs WebKit

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Component: New Bugs

[Michele Costabile]

Opening the stats page of a wordpress blog almost hangs the window. Response to events such as scrolling is delayed by seconds.
All the other tabs and windows are affected until the offending tab is closed.
The error is caused by some iniitalization error (see attachment). The same error is reported in Firefox in the Firebug console, like this

addLoadEvent is not defined
addLoadEvent(function(){linktracker_init('1',9081);});

The offending snippet is this inline code

<script type="text/javascript">
st_go({'blog':'1','v':'wpcom','user_id':'707093','post':'9081','subd':'wordpress.com'});
ex_go({'crypt':'UE5VRnhUZ2VGQSYvTVglSnBOaVR1Jk9bRnRwW3Nnb3RPLDFVRS1VRS1ZWm1PMTRyVkZzLTZ4QVR1fDNhNFhyZVhZcmpQMnBrMUE9dEJyUTJwXS8zVENTbTBmMlgyY1cuJm5sUnc1QV1deWRbeTM2MixULS5ZbTJtXUEwOWxTemFsOUVwOF1EdGdGZERVTkM9OU01d0R5YXA/ek4rRA=='});
addLoadEvent(function(){linktracker_init('1',9081);});
</script>

[Michele Costabile]

Created attachment 126362 [details]
Test case for bug

The attached file is the source of the offending page and it reproduces the bug effectively.

[Michele Costabile]

Created attachment 126364 [details]
Screen shot of WebKit console showing the error

This screen shot shows the error in the page as displayed in WebKit console. The same error is displayed in Firefox.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I cannot reproduce a hang with the attached test.

[Michele Costabile]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I cannot reproduce a hang with the attached test.

I am afraid that the problem lies in interaction between the page and the server to load statistic data.
To reproduce the bug a real wordpress blog might be needed. I am not sure if I can open an account not tied to my blogs for the purpose of debugging.