437611 - freezing when opening new websites in tabs or windows

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Philip Pryce]

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

When i open a new website in a new tab Firefox 3RC2 freezes ether indefinately, for about 30 seconds or any where in between. I have no additional addons installed, apart from Firebug. How ever the bug still occurs when Firebug is disabled.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox.
2. Wait for the browser to stop freezing when its loading my home page.
3. Open a new Tab.
4. Enter a new URL and press enter or click go.
5. Wait for the browser to stop freezing when its loading the new website.
6. Repeat 3 - 5.
7. Get fed up and CTRL + ALT + DEL Firefox proccess.
Actual Results:  
The browser froze for between 30 seconds or completely and does not un-freeze during the loading of a new page.

Expected Results:  
The page should be slowly rendered with out Firefox becoming unresponsive.

Default Firefox 3 XP Theme, No addons apart from Firebug (but it still does it with Firebug disabled).

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

PHilip, still see this in v3 started in safe mode?  If not please close with resolution set to WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.x or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.