333781 - HTML rendering freezes, scrollbar freezes, PageUp/PageDown Freezes

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

Description

[Douglas Godfrey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

go to <http://threewisemen.blogspot.com/>

page starts to load and render
progressbar completes and then 
restarts from zero and freezes 
at 3/4 complete. Firefox window
is frozen i.e. scrollbar freezes, 
PageUp/PageDown Freezes, text 
cannot be selected, links don't 
work.

Status line says "Read 3bubbles.com"

System Monitor shows 17.4K/sec
network I/O for read and write
and 107.5K/sec disk I/O for 
write only with no other active
application and just the one 
Firefox window open. 

cmd-Q works to Quit Firefox

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to <scrollbar freezes, PageUp/PageDown Freezes>
2. page renders then Firefox freezes
3. there is no step 3

Comment 1

[Douglas Godfrey]

Network and Disk I/O stopped immediately when
the Firefox window for <http://threewisemen.blogspot.com/>
was closed.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Comment 3

[Johannes Buchner]

(In reply to comment #0)
Please update to the newest version of firefox and try to reproduce the bug.
Can you also reproduce it with javascript disabled?

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

No response from reporter re: comment 3 -->INCOMPLETE.
Reporter, if you still see this problem with Firefox 2 please reopen this bug. Thanks!

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you still see this problem using Firefox 3.5?  Please update the bug, and close/alter bug if appropriate.

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [:Tyler]]

No reply, INCO. Please reopen if you are seeing this in Firefox 3.5.2 or later in Firefox safe mode and a new profile with the latest plugins.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Profiles