Closed Bug 302081 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

all Firefox windows run in the same process, so when one page causes a hang, all windows become unresponsive

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260107

People

(Reporter: chris, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050209 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050209 Firefox/1.0

When Firefox hangs or pauses for a long time rendering a page, all windows
become unresponsive; when it crashes, all windows close.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a page which causes Firefox to hang or crash
2. Visit it
3. Watch all your windows become unresponsive or close

Actual Results:  
As above.

Expected Results:  
Windows displaying pages which do not cause Firefox to hang or crash should
continue to respond and not close.

This problem has existed more-or-less forever, but the solution (make each
window  run in a separate process) ought to be pretty simple, right?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260107 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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