324565 - 100% CPU loading when viewing page. No real Javascript etc on page.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Gary Pelton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

When going to this page, Firefox simply hangs with a CPU utilization of from 90-99%

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/10/09/refactoring.html
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Actual Results:  
Immediately starts using all available CPU.
Can't scroll down.
Can't easily get menus.

Expected Results:  
Page displays.

Shown the page. IE works just fine.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.6a1
Page loads and scrolls just fine for me.

Comment 2

[Gérard Talbot]

Seamonkey 1.5a rv:1.9a1 build 2006060208 and Firefox 1.5.0.4 rv:1.8.0.4 build 20060508 under XP Pro SP2 here.
Page loads and scrolls just fine for me too.

Comment 3

[Gérard Talbot]

No reply for months so I assume the problem is fixed.

Resolving as WORKSFORME

Reporter, if the problem still occurs, you may reopen this bug.