309355 - becomes completely unresponsive when loading a page containing a big table

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 54542

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jullag]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686; en) Opera 8.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I've written this page (http://genome.imim.es/~jlagarde/get_project.pl.html), 
which is valid html (according to w3c validator). Firefox takes >20 min to load 
it, and becomes completely unresponsive. I have no firefox extensions installed 
(actually i do, but i tried it on another machine running a 'native' firefox and 
reproduced the bug).
Opera, Konqueror, Netscape 7.1 load this page instantaneously, without any 
problem.
If you could fix this, or advise me on how to make my code more firefox-friendly 
(or point me somewhere else for this), that would be great.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. point browser to http://genome.imim.es/~jlagarde/get_project.pl.html
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
firefox loads the page and gets frozen for >20 min

Expected Results:  
firefox should load the page faster, or at least the html parsing/loading 
process, if slow, should not affect other firefox tabs/windows

Theme used: default theme

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc 	gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1) 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused 
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -pedantic -pthread -pipe
c++ 	gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1) 	-fno-rtti -fno-
exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual 
-Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -pedantic -
fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -I/usr/X11R6/include

Configure arguments
--disable-ldap --disable-mailnews --enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,
pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth 
--enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile --disable-
profilesharing --disable-debug '--enable-optimize=-Os -freorder-blocks -fno-
reorder-functions -gstabs+' --disable-tests --enable-official-branding --enable-
default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-xft --disable-freetype2 --enable-static --disable-
shared

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54542 ***