309773 - browser hangs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[ALI]

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

firefoox hangs for few seconds about 8 to 15 seconds at any reguler 
browsing
after every 15 minuts

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load lots of tabs
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
8 to 15 Second hang. Can not click any thing, can do 
nothing but wait. after this everything ok Pages are also goinng loaded.

Expected Results:  
Allow me to browse through the loading page, click on a link.. :)

Firefox   1.0.6
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 28000MHz         Memmory  1024        
Windows XP Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1     No Winow Updates
HardDisk 120 GB sata   And   40 GB 
DX 9.0c  
MS Java VM     And     Sun Java 1.4.2_05
GForce 5200 = 256MB     Driver = 77.77
No  AntiVirus
56 K Modem
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Same System  another Hardisk  Another Window 

Firefox   1.0.6
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 28000MHz         Memmory  1024        
Windows XP Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2     All Updates
HardDisk 120 GB sata   And   40 GB 
DX 9.0c  
MS Java VM     And     Sun Java 1.4.2_05
GForce 5200 = 256MB     Driver = 77.77
McAfee  AntiVirus  All UpDates
56 K Modem

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Doesn't sound like a security bug, clearing flag so more people can see this and
maybe have it ring some bells.

Since you flagged this as a security bug, know that your java version 1.4.2_05
is horribly insecure and exploits that target it are fairly common in the wild,
typically installing backdoor software. You must IMMEDIATELY
1) turn off Java. If you want java then:
2) go to http://java.com and upgrade your java
3) make sure java's update notification feature is ON
4) Do a complete virus and spyware scan (two separate programs)
4) avoid shady sites both before and after the upgrade, but 
   especially before. Software/music/video/"warez" sites are common
   places for exploits -- they're already doing shady stuff, hosting a few 
   hack attempts isn't going to make it any worse since the maintainers
   obviously think they aren't going to get caught or are immune from
   prosecution (many of these sites turn out to be hosted in Russia
   eastern Europe, China, etc. What are you going to do?).

There's often a long pause opening external media viewers (Adobe Acrobat for
PDFs in particular), especially when they display the content in a browser
window rather than opening a separate window owned by that program. Is this
random, or could it be associated with some action like that?

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 309649 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

-> no reply/feedback on dveditz questions since 1,5 years.

Also works for me in  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/2007052909 Minefield/3.0a5pre