303621 - inactivity after switching Firefox to the background

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[oreothewolf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 (ax)

After bringing a new window or application the to the foreground, the newest
build of firefox will have constant periods of inactivity about every 5 seconds,
ranging from about 3 to 10 seconds in length.  this makes viewing any web page
very difficult to do

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start firefox
2.bring a new window to the foreground
3.bring firefox back to the foreground and try to type, scroll, click on links, etc.

Actual Results:  
constant stopping and starting of inactivity in the program's interface

Expected Results:  
it should have continued to operate smoothly without hanging up

Comment 1

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

Not a disability Access bug -> General

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Is an extension or theme possibly to blame? Do you see this in safe mode?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

resolving as imcomplete. 

Reporter, if you still see this problem, please take a look at the comment from adam (comment #2), since we still need more information to reproduce this bug.