410450 - Trying to load Download Squad Macintosh Category page causes a hang

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Greg L]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121014 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121014 Firefox/3.0b2

Attempting to load http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/macintosh/ causes a hang ("beachball") in Fx 3b2. The cursor beachballs and the Firefox process starts using close to 100% of CPU time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Fx.
2. Go to http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/macintosh.
Actual Results:  
The browser beachballs and consumes nearly 100% of CPU time, after initially rendering the page.

Expected Results:  
The browser should render the page normally.

There is a "Sample" of the process made with Activity Monitor attached.

Build is Fx3b2 as downloaded from the Mozilla website.

Comment 1

[Greg L]

Attachment: Process Sample taken from a beachballing Fx

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Greg: I don't see this using the latest nightly on either 10.5 or 10.4, Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008010204 Minefield/3.0b3pre.

Comment 3

[Greg L]

I should mention I'm using 10.4.11; build 8S2167. The extensions I have installed are:

Proto 0.8.2 (Theme)
1Password 2.5.9.BETA-1 (build 5979) 
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3

I can repro this with a clean profile. I think part of the problem might be with the Flash plugin; as the page renders and works fine very briefly, then the hang comes up.

Comment 4

[Greg L]

... And while going back to my regular profile to get the extensions and testing again, it works now. Closing for now; sorry for the zilla spam.