344529 - On bookmark folder pulldown, if I move cursor without selecting bookmark Firefox locks up and Task Mgr often shows multiple occurances

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Shawn Kelly]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

This seems like a big problem, but I couldn't find it already reported. I have several bookmark folders. Lately when I click on one and then drag my mouse off the pulldown without clicking a bookmark, the pulldown and Firefox freezes indefinitely. When I bring up Task Manager, there often are multiple occurances of the same Firefox window and when I try to end the process, nothing happens. I can only go to Firefox.exe under processes and select "End Process" or "End Process Tree" - and even then it takes 1-2 minutes before the windows close (all at once). Tried rebooting, and installed 2.0 beta to try that too (same result).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click a bookmark folder until the pulldown appears.
2. Drag cursor off pulldown without selecting item.


Actual Results:  
Pulldown and Firefox freezes indefinitely. When I bring up Task Manager, there often are multiple occurances of the same Firefox window.

Expected Results:  
Pulldown should disappear normally.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Can you also reproduce this with disabled extensions or with a new profile?

Comment 2

[Shawn Kelly]

Once I moved over to the 2.0 beta it removed all my extensions anyway. I also tried exporting/deleting/importing the bookmarks to a file, but that didn't help. But once I deleted a couple of the bookmarks, it started working again, even after I added more bookmarks later. This led me to the actual problem, I believe - 2 of the bookmarks I deleted pointed to HTML pages on an old network share that doesn't exist anymore. When I tried directly entering those URL's in the address line, Firefox exhibited the same "lockup" behavior... so I'm guessing it was trying to "preload" or access those old shares even without me directly clicking the links. I'm all set now, but perhaps there is a way to trap similar errors in the future?