307960 - Tab ceases responding. Can't go back, load another page, close it, nothing

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Iván Nieto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

When trying to load the page either via a link or by typing the url, the tab is
in hangs (doesn't respond) and displays nothing. Closing the browser is the only
way to get rid of it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iter_Vehemens_ad_Necem

Actual Results:  
The particular tab affected stopped responding at all. Only shows a blank page
and can't be closed.

Expected Results:  
Show the page or issue some error.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050910
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005091022

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050910
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005091022

Works for me.

Comment 3

[Johanne Jean-Baptiste]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050910
> Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005091022
> 
> Works for me.

Doesn't work for me! Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1)
Gecko/20050916 Firefox/1.6a1

Comment 4

[John Vandenberg]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

WFM.

Iván Nieto and Johanne Jean-Baptiste, could you confirm you still see the problem with this URL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iter_Vehemens_ad_Necem&oldid=119509389

If not, trying going back in the history and see if an earlier version causes the problem.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> incomplete, no response to comment 4.