465311 - System hangs on Firefox startup or while running

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kartik Mistry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

After upgrading to 3.0.4, I am facing use of very high memory from Firefox and entire system is sometime becomes useless. I have to kill the process to continue or sometime even restart.

I am attaching my system info and report sent to Apple after Application crash (as attachment, its big!)

Let me know if I can give moreinfo.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox (either fresh or restore session from previous crash!)
2. Use it sometime
3. System will hang or too slow
Actual Results:  
System is too slow to operate. FF is not responding.

Expected Results:  
It should work as it should ie Breeze surfing

My hardware is:
==============

Model: MacBook4,1, BootROM MB41.00C1.B00, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 2 GB
Graphics: kHW_IntelGMA965Item, GMA X3100, spdisplays_builtin, 144 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x88), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.38.9)
Bluetooth: Version 2.1.0f17, 2 service, 0 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Serial ATA Device: FUJITSU MHY2160BH, 149.05 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-857E
USB Device: Built-in iSight, Micron, high_speed, 500 mA
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, Apple, Inc., full_speed, 500 mA
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, Apple Computer, full_speed, 500 mA
USB Device: IR Receiver, Apple Computer, Inc., low_speed, 500 mA

about:buildconfig
=================

Build platform
target
powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.4

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc-4.0 -arch ppc 	gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250) 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -W -Wno-long-long -g -gfull -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -fpascal-strings -fno-common -I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon
g++-4.0 -arch ppc 	gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250) 	-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -g -gfull -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -fpascal-strings -fno-common -fshort-wchar -I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon

Configure arguments
--target=powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.4 --with-macos-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk --enable-application=browser --enable-update-channel=release --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-update-packaging --enable-official-branding --enable-prebinding
Build platform
target
i386-apple-darwin8.8.4

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc-4.0 -arch i386 	gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250) 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -W -Wno-long-long -g -gfull -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -fpascal-strings -fno-common -I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon
g++-4.0 -arch i386 	gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250) 	-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -g -gfull -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -fpascal-strings -fno-common -fshort-wchar -I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon

Configure arguments
--target=i386-apple-darwin8.8.4 --with-macos-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk --enable-application=browser --enable-update-channel=release --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-update-packaging --enable-official-branding

Comment 1

[Kartik Mistry]

Attachment: Apple Crash Report for FF 3.0.4

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Kartik,  I'm not familiar with Mac on dual processor, but do you still see problem if Firefox is bound to one CPU?

do you see when started in safe-mode, with flash v10, and FF 3.1 beta?
 from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

:( no repsonse from reporter