215476 - Throbber disappears

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 204374

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Midnight Coder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Rather than spinning, the Mozilla Firebird disappears during long operations
(slow web server, start of large download).  Usually, other open browser windows
or tabs are non-responsive (other desktops apps are OK) at the same time this
happens. If I were still a programmer I might suspect a threading problem.

Noticed in Firebird 0.6.0 and 0.6.1.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Click a link that does not appear immediately.
Actual Results:  
For a long time, the throbber is no longer visibale, and Firebird seems to freeze.  

Expected Results:  
Spinning throbber.  Ability to use other browser windows or tabs.

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Worksforme with the 20030805 build. Please test with a current nightly and s
fresh profile. After alonger period of use on systems with low memory conditions
(a W2K machine with only 128 MB of RAM for example), Firebird can become quite
non-responsive at times, but this due to 204374.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204374 ***