437507 - Location Bar (addressbar) autocomplete sometimes hangs, makes location bar unusuable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 433487

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Bramus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

Every now and then I find that the location bar (addressbar) has issues autocompleting stuff, slurping some CPU power (I can hear my music playing stutter for 1 second) and finally making it unusable.

The autocomplete still works on it, yet when selecting an item or pressing enter, nothing happens. Only solution is to open a new window (which has a new addressbar instance which then works fine) and close the current hanging window.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Really can't tell .. sometimes it happens twice in half an hour, sometimes it doesn't happen at all during the day.
Actual Results:  
selecting an url or entering an url doesn't actually "go" to that url


Setting this a major, as people their browser is left useless when it happens.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Duplicate of Bug 433487 ? Or Bug 425664 if the problem disappears after some time.

Comment 2

[Bramus]

Duplicate of Bug 433487 indeed; Closing this one.