478669 - Tabs sometimes freeze loading, upon closing browser firefox.exe remains open & can't be terminated

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 470849

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Santeramo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2

Occasionally when I go somewhere in a website (like click on a link) the tab freezes and says "Connecting...". I then close the browser and try to re-open it, and get the message that Firefox is already open. I open Task Manager and right there is firefox.exe. I try to end the process, but when I do so nothing happens. I have to end up rebooting my computer to fix the problem. 

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Are you using Zonealarm? In that case see Bug 470849.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Santeramo]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you using Zonealarm? In that case see Bug 470849.

I just read it and followed the reset instructions. Hopefully that will work. If the problem with ZoneAlarm doesn't reoccur within a few days then I'll mark this resolved.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

jesant13: Did it work ?

Comment 4

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

no comment from reporter for months

Comment 5

[Jonathan Santeramo]

Just got an e-mail reminding me about this. .-. The problem has since been long resolved since I'm using Comodo Firewall now and since I obviously have a different version of Firefox now. I'll change the status to "RESOLVED FIXED" since I no longer have this problem. Thanks to everybody who helped.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

thanks for the response, fixed means that we fixed something in the Mozilla source code. marking as duplicate of bug 470849 instead