261812 - Site freezes Firefox

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kai Stukenbrock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

When visiting the site, there is a high probability that Firefox will freeze! I
am not a pro, but it has to do with Java, which gets loaded at the time of the
freeze. This has happened to me on two different machines (both FF 0.10 and WinXP).

Firefox stays responsive to some extent (you can still change tabs), but
browsing does not work anymore.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open URI
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Firefox freezes

Comment 1

[Michael Lefevre]

I'm sure it's connected to Java.  It works ok for me (it freezes for a few
seconds while Java loads, which is normal) using the same build (1.0PR) and
1.4.2_04. What version of Java do you have (you can check by typing
about:plugins into the address bar)? Maybe try updating?

Comment 2

[Kai Stukenbrock]

I have the same Java version; it is not Java that freezes, as it starts properly
when opening the site, the icon appears in task bar, and I can open the Java
console.

I just tested again from my home PC and again it froze Firefox. After that
happens, I can close Firefox by clicking the close icon in the upper right, but
that only closes the window, but does not terminate Firefox. For that I have to
kill Firefox from the task manager.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040927
Firefox/0.10

Totally frooze for me too
it wouldn't load stuf from as1.falkag.de (all the javascript) properly
I had to kill FF with ctrl+alt+del to finish the process

It opened in IE w/o a problem (no excuse offcourse)

Comment 4

[Kai Stukenbrock]

yes, forgot to mention that: all freezes have usually been happening when
something from as1.falkag.de (an adserver) was being loaded

Comment 5

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041003
Firefox/0.9.1+

I could have sworn that I saw a crash on this page last night, but I have 
tried in vain to reproduce.

Comment 6

[Kai Stukenbrock]

Closing this bug again, as I am not able to reproduce anymore with the site
indicated. I think the adserver, which was most probably causing this, has
changed the code it was serving after being notified of the problem by the
website operator.