251076 - Browser hangs upon site entry, Java problem likely

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Mitch Golden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

When I visit the page http://www.cupcakecafe.com/ the browser partly loads the
page, then completely hangs.  I believe this has something to do with the silly
Java buttons/rollovers this site has.  If you open the site in IE, it works fine
(if slowly).

Note that the hang is quite severe, in that it is totally non responsive.  You
can't for example, switch tabs.  The CPU is not pegged.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.cupcakecafe.com

Actual Results:  
browser hangs

Expected Results:  
displayed the page

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040711
Java Plug-in 1.5.0 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/index.jsp
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp that is a beta!

current java:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html    J2SE v 1.4.2_05  JRE

Which version of Java are you using, see Help->About Plug-ins
or type about:plugins into the location bar.

Comment 2

[Hemant Singh]

I tried reproducing it, but NOT able to reproduce and site seems to be opening
fine, though slow first time, as applet is being cached first time.
Using following configuration:
- Mozilla 1.8.1a
- Java plugin 1.5 Beta 2
- OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
Also tried on{It worked fine here too}
  OS: Windows 2003 Server[Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]]


Though it got really slow for the first time, But after carefully looking the
reason of slowness looks like:
- Applet class is not compressed and used as such
- More than one applet use{same class reused though} but this also make process
bit slow, as loading applet is far slower than browser and there are around 5
applets on that first page.

Comment 3

[Mitch Golden]

I guess I was assuming that when in installed Mozilla 1.7.1 I got the
latest Java.  What it told me the plugin is

Java Plug-in 1.3.1_02 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

When I upgreded to 

Java Plug-in 1.4.2_05 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

the problem went away.

Very odd.

Comment 4

[Hemant Singh]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I guess I was assuming that when in installed Mozilla 1.7.1 I got the
> latest Java.  What it told me the plugin is
> Java Plug-in 1.3.1_02 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)
> When I upgreded to 
> Java Plug-in 1.4.2_05 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)
> the problem went away.
> Very odd.

Yup reason is very simple, browser upgrades are relatively very less than JDK's
anyhow smiles*** since it is being solved

Comment 5

[Hermann Schwab]

Resolving WFM based on comment #3 from reporter,
upgrading from Java 1.3.1_02 to 1.4.2_05 fixed the problem.