VS Code can crash after using Ctrl+F Find in Extension Preview window

[ZStoner]

Type: Bug

When viewing details pages for extensions, you can do a Ctrl+F to search in the description text.
If you then click to view a different extension VS Code may crash and close.

Repro Example:

1. In VSCode, I viewed the details page for this extension: (Clock in status bar: compulim.vscode-clock)
2. In the details page, I hit Ctrl+F typed gibberish.
3. I then clicked on this extension to view details: (Base64Viewer: jasonmejane.base64viewer)

4. VS Code crashes after displaying the Extension's header info, but before it renders any of its description markdown.

Known Crashing conditions:

• Crash repros regardless of an actual text match from the Find box.
• Crash repros if the Find box has text at the time you choose a different extension.
• Crash will not repro if the Find box was never invoked.
• Crash will not repro if the Find box was closed before viewing the next extension.
• Crash will not repro if the Find box is shown, but empty. This includes if the Find box previously had text, but then cleared the text and kept the Find box open.
• The specific extensions themselves don't seem to matter. I just picked two in the Example for completeness of a concrete repro.

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VS Code version: Code 1.93.1 (38c31bc, 2024-09-11T17:20:05.685Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1145G7 @ 2.60GHz (8 x 1498)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	31.57GB (12.40GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id c92ccc20-b606-4a82-b062-2771a0b6c7b1
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Extensions (68)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
Bookmarks	ale	13.5.0
jsonl	Alp	0.0.1
vscode-json	and	1.5.2
fold-to-definitions	arg	1.7.8
markdown-checkbox	bie	0.4.0
markdown-emoji	bie	0.3.0
markdown-footnotes	bie	0.1.1
markdown-mermaid	bie	1.25.0
markdown-yaml-preamble	bie	0.1.0
mermaid-markdown-syntax-highlighting	bpr	1.6.6
vscode-coloured-status-bar-problems	bra	0.2.0
vscode-clock	Com	0.0.1
pastespecial	d3v	0.9.1
markdown-table-prettify	dar	3.6.0
vscode-markdownlint	Dav	0.56.0
docs-article-templates	doc	1.0.7
docs-authoring-pack	doc	1.0.2
docs-build	doc	0.4.6
docs-images	doc	1.0.4
docs-markdown	doc	1.0.11
docs-preview	doc	1.0.9
docs-scaffolding	doc	1.0.8
docs-yaml	doc	1.0.5
learnlinter	doc	4.1.8
githistory	don	0.6.20
kusto	don	0.4.4
xml	Dot	2.5.1
vscode-html-css	ecm	2.0.10
LogFileHighlighter	emi	3.3.3
prettier-vscode	esb	11.0.0
html-preview-vscode	geo	0.2.5
mdmath	goe	2.7.4
json2ts	Gre	0.0.6
vscode-guid	hea	1.9.0
vscode-favorites	how	1.11.0
rest-client	hum	0.25.1
base64viewer	Jas	1.5.2
copy-markdown-as-html	jer	1.1.0
svg	joc	1.5.4
theme-by-language	jsa	1.3.0
sort-indentation-group	ken	1.1.0
Learn-Training-AI-Assistant	Lea	1.1.50
rainbow-csv	mec	3.12.0
code-point	med	1.11.0
ecdc	mit	1.8.0
vscode-json5	mrm	1.0.0
csdevkit	ms-	1.10.18
csharp	ms-	2.45.25
vscode-dotnet-runtime	ms-	2.1.6
vscodeintellicode-csharp	ms-	2.1.11
debugpy	ms-	2024.10.0
isort	ms-	2023.10.1
python	ms-	2024.14.1
vscode-pylance	ms-	2024.9.2
remote-containers	ms-	0.384.0
powershell	ms-	2024.2.2
material-icon-theme	PKi	5.11.1
highlight-counter	ram	1.6.0
vscode-xml	red	0.27.1
vscode-yaml	red	1.15.0
kuskus-extensions-pack	ros	2.0.1
kuskus-kusto-language-server	ros	3.4.1
kuskus-kusto-syntax-highlighting	ros	2.0.4
trailing-spaces	sha	0.4.1
sort-json	Thi	19.1.2
intellicode-api-usage-examples	Vis	0.2.8
vscodeintellicode	Vis	1.3.1
gzip-unzip-text	xba	0.3.0

(1 theme extensions excluded)

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[gjsjohnmurray]

/duplicate of #177046

[vs-code-engineering]

Thanks for creating this issue! We figured it's covering the same as another one we already have. Thus, we closed this one as a duplicate. You can search for similar existing issues. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

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