371245 - hangs when typing web address in location bar beginning with "e" e.g. - www.ebay.co.uk hangs on www.e

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 373256

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Owain Antcliff]

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

When trying to type www.ebay.co.uk or other, it hangs as soon as I push the "e" button at www.e !!  Clean version with no add-ons other than standard installation, no other programs running.  XP with SP2 installed and regularly updated.

System hangs, I kill it, get error report options from Windows and then I can restore the session and continue so long as I don't want to visit anything beginning with an "e"!  Bizarre.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Firefox
2.Delete contents of location bar
3.Type "www.e"
Actual Results:  
System fine, but Firefox hangs.  Windows kills it and it can be restored but bug not fixed following restoration.

Expected Results:  
Allowed me to type entire web address.

Comment 1

[Régis Caspar]

WFM, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Are you able to reproduce in safe-mode? (see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode)

Comment 2

[Owain Antcliff]

Yes, started in safe mode with run->firefox -safe-mode->continue in safe mode.

It still hangs at www.e

I realise you know how safe-mode works - it's just in case I did it wrong!

This isn't the biggest problem for me as I can use IE for e-sites(!) but thought it might be useful to others to know.

Comment 3

[Régis Caspar]

OK, I would then suggest trying with a new profile (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder) and if the hang still occurs, a _real_ new install of Firefox (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_%28Firefox%29#Clean_reinstall)

I hope that helps.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

My guess is that you have a lot of history entries beginning with domains starting with 'e' (e.g. ebay.com) and it's taking a while to search through them. How long do you keep your history for? Also, does this bug go away when you clear your history?

That said, I experience the same bug on Windows trunk and could not find a duplicate of it. I keep my history for 30 days, FWIW.

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

Duping to the bug that's blocking-firefox3+.