385851 - Frequent freezes with multiple tabs open

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Seen using Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/2007062504 Minefield/3.0a6pre. I also saw this using Friday's build. I don't have a consistent way to reproduce this, but it happens frequently enough to be very annoying. tchung also just saw it on his vista machine.

STR:

1. Open a few tabs. I had almost every major news site open.
2. Switch rapidly between them
3. Firefox freezes, and I need to Force-Quit the browser.

In the most recent case, I loaded all the tabs, switched to doing something else on the machine, and came back and had the spinning beach ball. tchung: please add further information to this bug so we can narrow down a better set of STR.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I suspect you suffer from the regressions of bug 367177.
Some major sites can cause the freeze because of this.
See bug 385681, bug 385365, bug 384836 (this one has a patch that might fix the frequent hangs).

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

The patch for bug 384836 landed last night. If you're not seeing any hangs in the next few days, we should probably resolve this as WFM.

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

I have seen this today twice while testing the Alpha6 candidate on the Mac (slow machine). I encountered it after having to close a bunch of tabs. juanb mentioned he had seen something similar on the mac as well but I will let him comment about what he saw.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I assume this is now wfm