288426 - firefox becomes unresponsive, if many-many tabbed windows are open.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[anil411]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

If i open multiple tabbled/single tabbled firefox windows, then sometimes
firefox becomes unresponsive. Clicking on any html link doesn't work. Also if i
enter any address in address bar and press enter, doesn't do anything. Even
firefox website loading status circle doesn't move. If I kill all firefox
windows and try to start   it fresh, It says "default" profile is currently
being used. Only way out to re-use my existing profile is reboot the machine.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open different kind of sites in around 5 tabbed windows of single firefox window
2. Open few single tabbed firefox windows with various different websites.
3.

Actual Results:  
firefox won't do anything on clicking any link or changing address in address
bar. This happens across all firefox instances.

Expected Results:  
firefox should gracefully take to new hyperlink.

I am using Windows-XP.

Comment 1

[Ng Ming Hong]

I guess that's the limitation of the computer hardware.
P.S. You don't need to reboot your Windows. Just open the task manager, find
"firefox.exe" and kill it. Closing windows may not really close the busy
firefox.exe.

Comment 2

[Dr. Donald Houston]

Nothing new to add just an irritating foible in this wonderful program...!

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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