268120 - freezing Mozilla and whole system for some seconds

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 267525

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Florian Effenberger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041027 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041027 Firefox/1.0RC1

The above URL freezes Mozilla and whole system for some seconds

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I can see this happening with Mozilla1.7, but I don't see it, using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041106
Firefox/0.9.1+
So this might be fixed already, somehow.

Comment 2

[strattbo]

Can reproduce this on macos. The "beach-ball of death" is shown during the freeze.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050105
Firefox/1.0+
Darwin dhcp-253.xxxx.de 7.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.7.0: Sun Nov  7 16:06:51
PST 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.9.5.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc

Comment 3

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3)
Gecko/20050714 Firefox/1.0+, and duping to bug 277984

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 277984 ***

Comment 4

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 267525 ***