356545 - changing gnome's theme crashes/hangs firefox

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 352096

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[affillate]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060913 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.7 pango-text
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060913 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.7 pango-text

Platform: Fedora Core 5 (package name: firefox-1.5.0.7-1.fc5)



Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure only one window of Firefox is open.
2. Open the following urls in two tabs: www.slashdot.org, www.kerneltrap.org
3. Make sure that loading of the pages is finished
4. Change GNOME's theme (via Desktop -> Preferences -> Themes)
5. Firefox should become unresponsive (or crashes...)


Actual Results:  
Firefox becomes unresponsive

Expected Results:  
Firefox should not become unresponsive. It should carry on with the theme change.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
with those two tabs becomes unresponsive (and gets artifacts on its browser window) for a couple of seconds.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061003 Firefox/2.0
with 11 tabs becomes unresponsive for 30 seconds.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

This bug is fixed on trunk. Hopefully we can get the patch that fixes it landed on branch (Firefox 2) and 1.8.0 (Firefox 1.5.0.x).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 352096 ***