295595 - Comedy Central Daily Show site causes infinite loop.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Greg Amis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When you try to visit the "most recent videos" section of the Daily Show
website, the firefox process starts sucking up 100% of the CPU time and doesn't
stop until you close the window. Perhaps there's something bad in the site's
code, but no site should cause this kind of instability in a browser. If I
disable JavaScript, the problem goes away, so clearly there is some bad js on
the site. However, this problem does not occur in IE. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load firefox
2. Nav to
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml
3. Open "Task Manager"
4. Note that CPU time is 100% to firefox.
5. Close firefox window
6. Reload firefox.
7. Disable JavaScript.
8. Nav back to the page.
9. Note that firefox is no longer hogging CPU time.

Actual Results:  
The firefox process starts sucking up 100% of the CPU time and doesn't stop
until you close the window.

Expected Results:  
Take the necessary CPU time to render the page and then drop down to 0% usage.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Probably caused by the highly animated flash objects in that page.
Those flash objects are probably generated by javascript, so that's why you
don't see it with javascript turned off.

Comment 2

[Gabriel Chadwick]

I get the high cpu usage to with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050526 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Wilfred]

Works for me. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050720
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 4

[Michael Stolovitzsky]

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

I am using the same build as the reporter. I do not observe 100% CPU usage when
I open the target site. Could the reporter please produce a minimized test case?

Comment 5

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

WFM too in the last beta.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006
Firefox/1.4.1

Comment 6

[Gabriel Chadwick]

Works for me Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8b5)
Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1