401196 - Visiting time.gov and atomictime.net causes Minefield to not respond.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter S.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007102504 Minefield/3.0a9pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007102504 Minefield/3.0a9pre

http://time.gov/

I went there and selected a time zone.
It wasn't appearing right (java issue??) so I clicked the IE Tab icon to flip over to IE.
Minefield went in to "not responding" mode so I had to CTRL+ALT+DEL to close the browser.


The same "not responding" thing happened at atomictime.net

My about:plugins lists Java as being:
Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U3

    File name: npoji610.dll
    Java Plug-in 1.6.0_03 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)


According to java.com, the recommended java is installed.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007102504 Minefield/3.0a9pre ID:2007102504

IE Tab 1.3.3.20070528

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit time.gov or atomictime.net
2. In time.gov, select a time zone.  In atomictime.net, select one of the options for java display.
3. It should become sluggish and cause the user to do a ctrl+alt+del command to exit Minefield.
Actual Results:  
I had to do a ctrl+alt+del command to exit Minefield.

Expected Results:  
Java should display proper time.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Does the same hang occur if you make a new test profile for firefox?
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager
(Do not delete your existing profile(s))

Comment 2

[Peter S.]

Made a new profile.  No hang. :-(

time.gov gave me a message...something about "please check your firewall for incoming connections"..sorry, but I don't have it up now, but it was something along those lines.

atomictime.net works as expected with a clean profile.

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

I think you should try disabling your extensions one by one until you find a probably culprit.

Comment 4

[Peter S.]

Ad-Block Plus is most likely the culprit.  I uninstalled and re-installed it to no avail.

I'm thinking this bug is redundant(??) and there's a better bug for my comments than here?  Where would that be?

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007102619 Minefield/3.0a9pre ID:2007102619

both WFM (no adblock or adblock plus)

Comment 6

[Mitchell Field [:Mitch]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008040305 Minefield/3.0pre

Java Plug-in 1.6.0_05

Works for me.

Comment 7

[Peter S.]

WFM.  I have no idea what the problem was.  Just a few days ago, I added more RAM (went from 256 to 512).  For all I know, that could have been the problem.