Closed Bug 231284 Opened 21 years ago Closed 19 years ago

all browser instances freeze permanently on slow and loaded connection

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 188332

People

(Reporter: mbop001, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

All open browser instances freeze permanently when the internet connection is
slow and overloaded with many loading pages in firebird and downloads (in other
programs). Looks like one of the loading pages freezes half-loaded, and then all
other browser instances freeze and this is permanent, even if the connection is
"unloaded", the browsers are still frozen. If I kill the instance that I think
has caused the problem, all instances close. I guess this has to do with socket
networking code blocking infinitely on socket I/O. This happens rarely, but is
very annoying.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Modem connection - 33.6 kbps
2.Open many pages simultaneously, grouped in several instances of the browser
app. Pages - with some graphics, i.e. relatively heavy to load
3.Open some page on a slow server



Expected Results:  
Would be good if the separate browser instances were more independent, so that
in case one crashes for some reason the others will continue to work. I guess
this is a side effect of the mozilla app architecture, possibly optimization for
faster load times of additional instances once the core is loaded. But still I
believe some work on this subject could be done for greater stability.
This could be a DNS lookup thing as in bug 188332 or bug 235853.
I get this error too in a specific heavy loaded network.
(100+ Computers) at school.

This only happens there.

I think it happens, while the name resolution. If there is an address, which
doesnt exist, like "www.goo" (which happens often because I type so fast) then
all instances freeze, after a minute or so the Error of the SQUID Proxy is
shown, but all instances are frozen another minute or so...
Richard, what you're describing sounds like bug 235853.

James, are you using a proxy?
(In reply to comment #3)
> Richard, what you're describing sounds like bug 235853.
> 
> James, are you using a proxy?

No, I'm not using a proxy... The situation I described occurs during page
loading, not during lookup, although I remember occasions when all browser
instances freez during lookup as well, but this is only until the lookup
operation times out
Is this still here in newer builds of Mozilla Firefox?
Firefox will sometimes freeze is the middle of loading a page or even when 
going to main pages of sites, such as google.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188332 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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