438544 - This page causes Firefox 3 to hang every time

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Firefox 3.0 RC2

The page listed causes Firefox 3 to hang every time its opened. Occurs for both RC1 and RC2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/celtic/news.html
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3.
Actual Results:  
Firefox hangs

Expected Results:  
Show me the page

Firefox doesn't seem to realise it hung. After I kill it and restart it doesn't attempt to send feedback.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Works for me, Firefox 3.0 RC2 on Windows XP and Linux.

Does it still hang if you disable the Flash plugin?
(in Tools->Add-ons window, restart Firefox for it to take effect)

Comment 2

[Paul]

Disabling Flash doesn't help but I found out whats causing it. Disabling 'Yahoo Application State Plugin' fixes it. Weird thing is I can open other Yahoo pages, it just seems to be that one. 

I guess its a problem for Yahoo, or could it still be a Firefox issue?

Comment 3

[martin raud]

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

worked like a charm, no hangs

WFM

Comment 4

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a1pre) Gecko/2008062402 Minefield/3.1a1pre
WFM
Per #2 I think this is a problem with the plugin from yahoo and not firefox. Closing as WFM.