222235 - Random freezes in Win2K with no action from user

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[CS Merritt]

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: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.7/MozillaFirebird-0.7-win32.zip

It just freezes within seconds to a maximum of maybe a minute or so.

Most easily freezes after typing in and trying to reach another site.

Sometimes I can get to yahoo.com without trouble, but mostly anything I type in
and try to go to will freeze the browser. Even those on my intranet, or even
from my local loop apache server.

It will freeze when doing nothing.
It will freeze while you are typing in a field (like Bugzilla).

I tried opening pages stored on my disk, regular html.
It seems to have no trouble opening a simple html "hello world" type of page.
But a large page with XHTML and CSS chokes it every time.

Of course this freezing eats CPU cycles hard core.
I have an AMD XP 2500+ system.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firebird 0.7
2. Wait
3. Try to close Firebird, when "not responding" message dispays click "End now"

Actual Results:  
It closed.

Expected Results:  
Not frozen.

Comment 1

[CS Merritt]

Okay, I've figured it out.

v0.7 won't work with the old %AppData%\Phoenix\Profiles\default\xxxxxxxx.slt\
that was in effect for when I was running v0.61

I was trying to have the new version coexist with v0.61

It seems it will still take all of my customizations (user.js, userChrome.css,
etc.)... the files that choke v0.7 whenever I try to copy them from the old
v0.61 profile folder are the two files that keep the passwords (the .w and .s
files??)

Putting these in cause it to freeze up like it did before.

I'll keep trying different stuff to make the password files successfully
merge.... because, frankly, I need those (what? you expect me to remember my
passwords? yikes!).

Any ideas?

Comment 2

[CS Merritt]

Okay, it seems only the .s file freezes it. The .w has no effect.

I've generated a new .s file in v0.7 and compared it with the old one... I guess
the entire format of the file has been changed?? (for better crack security i
guess).

Is there any tool I could use to convert the old v0.61 .s file to the new
format, so I can continue using my old password file?

The file is rather large and I doubt I'll remember all the old passwords I've
stored in it.

Comment 3

[Tracey Clark]

This bug happens for me with my old profile. A new profile does not reproduce
the problem. 
I have confirmed that deleting the .w file has no effect. Firebird still hangs.

I can copy over the prefs.js to the new profile & it still works OK.

I have no .s files in my profile anywhere. Deleting cache files from the
preferences folder did not change anything. Trying to access the Privacy
preferences immediately causes Firebird to hang.

Comment 4

[Tadeu "Tcmjr"Junior]

I am changing this bug to WFM as the reporter found out what the problem was.
Just incompability with 0.6 and 0.7 milestones password storage files.
I don't thing there is a way to convert the files.
Be aware that firebird is only a technology preview , a lot of things are under
change until the final release.

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"While this software may work well enough to be relied upon as your primary
browser, we make no guarantees of its performance or stability in its pre-1.0
state and it should not be relied upon for mission- critical tasks. See the
License Agreement for more information."

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Comment 5

[Tadeu "Tcmjr"Junior]

reopening and marking as invalid.