Hi,
I already posted this on the jQuery BugTracker, but nobody seems to
notice. Maybe I can get some help here and I hope you don't regard
this a double post. (the link to the bug report is
http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/5482)
Using closing or opening brackets, '(' or ')', in the contains filter
sometime crashes Firefox. I tried escaping the bracket by '\\' or by
'\', but this does not work. Neither putting or omitting " " around
the contains expression makes a difference.
I found the problem developing an add-on, but it's the same in JS on a
webpage. To test this, I copied the souce from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana
to my server and addded following to the header.
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
var exp = ':contains("fleshy edible inner portion )" )';
var pos = $('body').find(exp);
console.log(pos);
})
</script>
This will always reproduce the error (= force FF to stop the script,
if the code comes from a webpage, or completely crash FF, if the code
comes from an add-on), which according to FF occurs in line 1585 of
jquery-1.3.2
The current nightly crashes exactly the same.
A solution would be help me a lot.
thx,
jakkob
