365589 - Firefox 2.0.0.1 regularly freezes

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bill C. Riemers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Ever since the automatic upgrade from 2.0.0 to 2.0.0.1 Firefox has been freezing extremely regularly.  It appears like a deadlock.  After a deadlock, I can not switch tabs, scroll, nor use browser buttons.  If I am editing a form at the time, I can continue to type, but auto-completion stops working.  I can submit, but after that the next page is never loaded.  This happens extremely common when I add a new person to a tree at Ancestry.com.  Interesting enough, the data is submitted...

If I am editing a form, the close button will bring up the dialog warning I am closing multiple tabs.  If I was simply downloading a page, there is no response to the close button.

Typically the only recovery procedure is to "End Process" and then restart the with the current session to continue where I left off.

For now, I will see if I still have a copy of 2.0.0 I can revert back to.

Bill


Reproducible: Sometimes

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Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs

Comment 2

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Bill, do you still see this problems in Firefox 2.0.0.4 ?

If so, could you provide more information (like a url where this happens), please see also comment #1

Comment 3

[Bill C. Riemers]

No.  I have not seen this problem in Firefox 2.0.0.4.

Bill

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Thanks for your feedback Bill. Closing this Bug as works for me.