Open Bug 678651 Opened 13 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Clear All History Items freezes the browser

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Version:
5 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: deepak.vasudevan, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.112 Safari/535.1

Steps to reproduce:

Tools -> Clear Recent History (Select All Check Boxes). And click the submit button.


Actual results:

Whilst the clearing operation is in progress the browser freezes and changes to a 'Not Responding' state.


Expected results:

The clearing should happen and also the  browser window should be maintained in a responsive state as other applications.
Bug 648232 was about a similar issue, but that issue might be resolved now considering bug 648232 comment 21.

Are you able to reproduce your problem with the latest Nightly?
https://nightly.mozilla.org/
Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110913 Firefox/9.0a1, build id: 20110913030846

Works fine for me on latest nightly.

Reporter, are you still experiencing the problem? Are you able to reproduce it on latest nightly and/or in safe mode: http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode ?

Thank you!
Duplicate of bug 645471 and/or bug 648232
Severity: normal → S3
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