373086 - This webpage causes firefox to hang every time

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Visiting http://www.myspace.com/rachaelariella causes the browser to become completely unresponsive.  Closing the browser window leaves the Firefox process running.  Firefox must be killed in the task manager.  A Java applet appears to start running before the crash occurs.  The complete page is not rendered.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Visit http://www.myspace.com/rachaelariella
2.  Firefox hangs
3.  Kill firefox with task manager
Actual Results:  
Firefox hangs.

Expected Results:  
Page should display normally.

Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

wfm on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3pre) Gecko/2007030503 BonEcho/2.0.0.3pre

Can you take a look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs if this article fix your reported problem ? 

Comment 2

[Michael]

Disabling Javascript does not prevent the hang on that page, however, disabling Java does.

Comment 3

[Verneri]

Firefox hangs also when entering www.welho.fi
When you click 'X' in the top corner of the window you get this "this program does not respond" -notification. So you don't have to go to the task manager to kill the program.

System: 32-bit Windows XP, Intel Celeron, Firefox 2.0.0.3

Hope this helps.

Jussi M.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

http://www.myspace.com/rachaelariella
http://www.welho.fi

both WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3  -- with a rather old Java Version 1.5.0 (build 1.5.0_09-b03)

suspect you need to update java iirc 1.6 is newest version - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Java

check your version of Java from windows' "control panel" or the java icon in the system communication area (on the start bar)

Comment 5

[Verneri]

This problem has disappeared. I'm using FF 2.0.0.6 in Windows now and Java has been upgraded a few times also. So now it's "RESOLVED WORKSFORME" for me too.
Jussi M.