432309 - on every download firefox freezes until download is complete

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Andre Mueller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

Since firefox 2.0.0.8 or later, I do not remember the correct version, when the problem occurred first, every download to desktop or selected destination freezes firefox fully for the first 20-30 seconds or until the file to be downloaded has been downloaded completely. Also CPU load raises in this freeze status. Before this problem was introduced, parallel downloads were possible and no temporary freeze occurred. We have this problems on all of our Macs (PPC - no idea on Intel-CPU).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. klick on any link with a file to downloades (small, large etc.)
2. 
3.
Actual Results:  
small files tend to freeze firefox until their complete download, where large files tend to freeze firefox only the first 20-30 seconds the begin to download an to be visible in the progress-bar in the download-manager.


same seems to be true in actual version of Thunderbird, but there the problem is less obvious

Comment 1

[Andre Mueller]

It seems that the problem arises if the download list has become very long over time. By clearing the download list the problem disappears.

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Good news is that this has been fixed in Firefox 3!  Resolving as WORKSFORME per comment 1.