284928 - Excessive Resources Required to Request Master Password

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, defect)

Description

[David E. Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

When I select the link to logon to Bugzilla for Mozilla.org (or any other secure
Web site), excessive resources are required in order to launch the dialogue for
inputting my master password.  
  Kernal usage: 100%
  Unused physical memory: 0
  Swapfile in use: 150 MB (was 47 MB)
Further, my hard drive becomes very busy (writing or reading the swapfile?). 
This causes my PC to freeze for about 30 seconds.  

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Isn't this a problem with Win98 and any Application? If so the workaround
may be to use the "Unbreak my PC" setting that says not to erase and
recreate swapfiles.

Comment 2

[Ben Fowler]

>Where do I find that setting?  That is, how do I set it?  
>
>>>Isn't this a problem with Win98 and any Application? If so the
>>>workaround may be to use the "Unbreak my PC" setting that says 
>>>not to erase and recreate swapfiles.
>
>David E. Ross
><URL:http://www.rossde.com/>  

Well, I took the words "Windows 98 memory management tips" and did an
I'm feeling lucky search on Google - drag into the Google bar, and got
back a page that covered this point.

If this does help your problem, perhaps you could report back.

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

>You mean suggestion #15 at
><URL:http://users.accesscomm.ca/gbraun/w98/>?  I tried that before
>in an attempt to solve another problem.  It made things worse.  
>>>------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2005-03-10
>>>>>Where do I find that setting?  That is, how do I set it?  
>>>>>>>>>Isn't this a problem with Win98 and any Application? If so the
>>>>>>>>>workaround may be to use the "Unbreak my PC" setting that says 
>>>>>>>>>not to erase and recreate swapfiles.
>>>>>
>>>>>David E. Ross
>>>>><URL:http://www.rossde.com/>  
>>>Well, I took the words "Windows 98 memory management tips" and did an
>>>I'm feeling lucky search on Google - drag into the Google bar, and got
>>>back a page that covered this point.
>>>
>>>If this does help your problem, perhaps you could report back.

I am sorry that your 'other problems' were made worse. Was the one that
you reported: "my hard drive becomes very busy (writing or reading the 
swapfile?). This causes my PC to freeze for about 30 seconds. " helped 
or otherwise. If you are able to tie this down to a defect in
Firefox then it will be investigated and fixed.

Comment 4

[David E. Ross]

Re comment #3:  This is the kind of response I would expect from Micro$oft --
deny any responsibility and cast blame on some other company's product.  

Comment 5

[David E. Ross]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319

This is still a problem.  I just encountered it at
<URL:http://finance.yahoo.com/p?v&k=pf_1>, which redirected to
<URL:http://login.yahoo.com/?.src=quote&.intl=us&.mesg=You%20have%20requested%20a%20portfolio%20that%20requires%20a%20Yahoo!%20ID%20and%20a%20password.%20Please%20sign%20in.&.done=http://finance.yahoo.com%2fp%3fv%26k%3dpf_1>
for loggin in.  I had just booted from a cold shut-down and started Mozilla.  

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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