298923 - Firefox Is exceptionally prone to freezing, especially around Flashgot downloads

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nathan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050620 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050620 Firefox/1.0.5

Firefox loves to freeze and become un responsive, it seems the longer you use
it, the more likely this will happen.  It does not matter what extensions I
have, it does this over time anyway.  Flashgot downloads seem to speed up the
freeze timeframe, but that of course may be due just to more transactions in
shorter time, not flashgot per se.  The other thing that hastens the problem
along is opening more windows.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use Firefox
2.Either open more windows, or use Flashgot
3.sooner or later, it will ALWAYS freeze and become unresponsive

Actual Results:  
it will freeze.  This has happened on all version Firefox since 1.0.  It is no
worse or no better with 1.05

Expected Results:  
It should keep working, right?

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Dupe of bug 298922 ?