277039 - Firefox hangs when trying to upload file

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tjerk Wolterink]

Reproducable: yes

In a form on my own developed website i want to upload a file.
so i use the <input type="file" element.
Then a popup is shown (when ik click on the Browse.. button next to the input
field) in wich you can select a file.
Then i enable previews (in dutch its called "miniatuurweergaven") (because i
want to upload an image and want to see the images in the form).

Ok, i browse until i see the image i want. I click on the image.
And then dismiss the form using the button Open in the right corner of the form.

next: firefox hangs.

How to reproduce:

goto
http://test.wolterinkwebdesign.com/xcm_v1.0/index.php?page=pages/medewerkers.page.xml
.

Click on the button TOEVOEGEN.
Then a web-form is displayed in wich you also can choose a file.
There is a phrase above the file input field is "Gebruik een nieuw plaatje:".
Well select that input form and click on browse.
Then enable file preview in the new window, select your image,
and click open:
- crash

Comment 1

[Tjerk Wolterink]

hmm, it does not really hang is see now.
It just takes 3 to 5 minutes.
When i click the Open button in the file-browser-popup,
then it hangs for 3 to 5 minutes, and then the 
file-browser-popup dismissed and everything works. But it is too damn slow.

Comment 2

[Tjerk Wolterink]

ok tried the same in msie, it does take a few seconds, but not a few minutes
like in firefox. 
And in msie it hangs only a few seconds for only the first time, the second time
when i do the same its just fast, but not in firefox.

I begin to think that this bug is not really a firefox bug, but rather a bbb: a
bill-gate-bug. Well its annoying. Maybe it is a firefox-specifc bug, so i leave
it as unconfirmed

Comment 3

[info]

Firefox doesn't just hang, I end up with firefix not responding, and the whole
thing shuts down.  This happens which ever email provider I am visiting.

Comment 4

[Emily]

Hi

I noticed the following behavior when I was testing a file upload page in
FireFox 1.0.1:

FireFox hangs indefinitely, all windows cease to respond. Task Manager ceases to
respond and I am forced to manually power off the computer. When the same page
is run under alternative browser, no hang occurs. The intial load of the page is
fine. An empty postback is fine. If I reload the page from the toolbar it hangs
(empty or file selected to upload) and I am forced to power off the computer to
continue. (it's BAD) I lose control of the Task Manager. It *behaves* as if the
CPU is spiking, but according to what the process readout returns CPU usage is
low. I can't figure this one out.

Steps to reproduce:

Comment 5

[Tristor]

Following the steps of reproduction from the initial reporter, I don't see the
button he describes to click on to initiate the dialog.  Unable to reproduce,
could somebody create a testcase for this?

Reporter, Commentors:  Please provide a build identifier/user agent string when
reporting reproduction of a bug.  It helps /immensely/.  You can find your build
ID/UA string by typing the URI about: in the location bar.  

Changing severity to major.
CCing myself, leaving UNCO.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 8

[Ivaylo]

Hi all,

I have the same issue with input type="file" under Firefox 4 and Firefox 3.6, but the difference is that it hangs on large files. The browser uses the CPU on maximum 100% and then it hangs for file to finish the upload. I think that's a serious bug and if you prefer I can open new bug definition and I can provide a little sample. Also only firefox hangs on large file uploads. IE9, Chrome, Safari and Opera are working properly.

Thanks,
Ivaylo

Comment 9

[israel.robotnick]

This happens for me too, I can wait a minute or two (really is two minutes, im not just saying) and sometimes it gives a "not responding" thing that if you continue to wait it solves and open. Both on FF and Chrome (IE works great, which is, very very strange).
It started happening only few days ago, on TWO computers I have, Though I didn't install anything new in neither of them.

I tried the suggestion Stub said, and disabled "Client for microsoft networks", didn't change anything. 
I checked I have few GB of free internal memory and on my HD. 
I disabled all plugins, didn't help.

To me it's actually when I want to upload a file to a web site using his <input type="file" runat"server"> web control. Meaning no data is actually being transferred, since I can't browse the file I want to send.
(After I press the "browse" button, u can see the button was clicked since its U.I is changed to "pressed" and back, but the browse dialog takes forever to open. Again it happens in FF as well, but work perfectly fine on IE)

*I'm working on a Virtual machine with windows 2008 64 bit which is connected to a network. 
On both FF 6 and FF 34.0.5

Comment 10

[israel.robotnick]

(In reply to israel.robotnick from comment #9)
> This happens for me too, I can wait a minute or two (really is two minutes,
> im not just saying) and sometimes it gives a "not responding" thing that if
> you continue to wait it solves and open. Both on FF and Chrome (IE works
> great, which is, very very strange).
> It started happening only few days ago, on TWO computers I have, Though I
> didn't install anything new in neither of them.
> 
> I tried the suggestion Stub said, and disabled "Client for microsoft
> networks", didn't change anything. 
> I checked I have few GB of free internal memory and on my HD. 
> I disabled all plugins, didn't help.
> 
> To me it's actually when I want to upload a file to a web site using his
> <input type="file" runat"server"> web control. Meaning no data is actually
> being transferred, since I can't browse the file I want to send.
> (After I press the "browse" button, u can see the button was clicked since
> its U.I is changed to "pressed" and back, but the browse dialog takes
> forever to open. Again it happens in FF as well, but work perfectly fine on
> IE)
> 
> *I'm working on a Virtual machine with windows 2008 64 bit which is
> connected to a network. 
> On both FF 6 and FF 34.0.5