275587 - Freeze on Print or Print Preview command

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 266681

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kyle A]

When Firefox is commanded to print or print preview this page
[http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Fairbanks/departures.html], it freezes while it is
preparing the document for viewing or sending to the printer. This is the first
time firefox has frozen on a print command for me, and I am able to print and
preview other pages.

Comment 1

[Thomas Ingerslev]

When Firefox is commanded to print this page
[http://www.jp.dk/] (2005-01-20), it freezes while it is
preparing the document for viewing or sending to the printer. This is the first
time firefox has frozen on a print command for me, and I am able to print and
preview other pages.

When disabling CSS, printing is OK.

Comment 2

[Joseph Peach]

I experience crashes on Print Preview for both pages linked, using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Comment 3

[Paul Wellner Bou]

Another URL where firefix and Mozilla (Windows and Linux) freezes:

http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/28/0,3672,2261276,00.html

There is a flash on this site, but deactivating the flash it happens, too.
The processor use raises up to 100%.

Seems to happen in all versions, Linux, Mac, Windows:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

I get this error running mozilla or firefox from a terminal:

run-mozilla.sh: line 159: 11519 Killed                  "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Comment 4

[Mark Jansen]

And another page to make Firefox freeze:
http://www.pan-west.nl/frames.htm?src=http://www.pan-west.nl/kortingsbon_mei2005.htm

Comment 5

[THOMAS, Renald]

I experience crashes on Print Preview or Print for :
- http://www.jp.dk/
AND
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader

using :
- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513
Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4
AND
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR;rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4)

Comment 6

[Henry Hartley]

I had no problem with Print | Preview for the URLs listed above with this
nightly.  Has this somehow been fixed?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 7

[Kyle A]

More recently, I tried to Print Preview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader
as reported. I was able to get the preview, but when I commanded it to close, it
frose then. When I originally reported the bug, it froze without displaying the
preview. With http://www.jp.dk/ , it still freezes on command to preview.
Somehow, there is an inconsistancy here.

edit: after trying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader agian, it didn't
freeze at all. Inconsistancies...

currently using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4

Comment 8

[Skunk Worx]

(In reply to comment #7)
> More recently, I tried to Print Preview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader
> as reported.

I found the current revision (as of "now") of the following webpage will crash
on Print Preview :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_DC

There has been a short discussion of this on the fedora users list mentioning
several platforms and versions of firefox (and IE crashing too) :

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-June/msg01096.html

Comment 9

[Jerry L. Cox]

I experiance print freezes at the Oracle support site:
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_gui.startup

As of yesterday and today (July 26-27 2005) I have run across various patch
readme pages and Oracle Note pages, that when I attempt to print, will freeze
Firefox and lock up my computer until I use Task Manager to kill Firefox.  On
that site about 1 in 5 print jobs cause a print freeze.  

I'm running Windows 2000 Professional and Firefox 1.0.6.  It also occurred on
Firefox 1.0.5.

Comment 10

[Scott Quick]

Attachment: Saved page which locks up print & print preview

Attached zip of html + assoc directory of images.  This page causes lockup of
print and/or print preview.  Hope this aids debugging.

Comment 11

[Scott Quick]

BTW, the page I attached locks up FireFox 1.06: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6"

Comment 12

[Kyle A]

In regards to the newly added attachment:

I opened the HTML page without any of the outside files, and I was able to print
preview. So, I started to remove files one by one that I suspected to cause the
problem [the files "a", "a_002"]. Neither of them fixed the problem. I then
removed the CSS file [main.css] and Firefox no longer froze on print preview. I
believe CSS was stated earlier as a probable cause (comment #1).

I'm no coder, but I'd like to find what in these select CSS files is causing FF
to freeze.

Comment 13

[Kyle A]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 266681 ***