Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 100628
pasting html hangs / crashes calc
Last modified: 2013-01-29 21:40:41 UTC
Try to copy and paste the table from this html into calc and it will cause calc to completely hang. http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24445837/test-data.html Confirmed on official OOo 3.0.1
OOo does not crash and does not hang, but needs a long time. This special website contains a lot of calls to https://some-url.no/equity-trading/equity-trading/images/space.gif, which does not exist. I think, OOo tries to load all this images and has to wait for a lot of time outs. Please disconnect your pc from any network and try to paste the content then. Does OOo react faster than?
I have read issue 7553 now. Disconnect will not help. But please save that website to your pc, open the page from your pc with a browser and copy&paste the content then to the spreadsheet. It seems to be the same problem as described in issue 7553 for writer, but now for a spreadsheet.
regina, Even after saving the webpage locally then copy/pasting it took on the order of 15s before OOo responded again.
I had the same problem with Version 3.2.0 (OOO320m12 Build 9483) on Windows. I tried to copy and paste the table from http://dlcquickplay.com/dlc.php?sub=&order=12&sort=desc, which - at least at the moment - has very slow response times. When pasting into Calc, it was nonresponsive for multiple minutes, which seems to be a very long time in regard that the copied section of the page has only about 10 images. Saving the page and copy/pasting locally (see attachment), takes only about 10 seconds.
Created attachment 70600 [details] locally saved page