480961 - There is a long delay after clicking a link before anything happens

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Keith A. Flick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6

There is a long delay after left or right clicking a - link, image, button or email address before anything happens.  The delay is 15-25 seconds.  This does not happen on all websites, just most of them.

As examples of web sites where it does happen:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/
http://sev.org/
http://www.google.com/

If I right or left click on any of the blue links there is a long delay before anything happens.

As an example where this does not happen:

http://321gold.com/

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the web site
2. Right click on a link
3. Wait for the submenu to open
Actual Results:  
On any of the first three sites there will be a 15-25 second delay before the submenu opens on the other site it will open immediately.

Expected Results:  
I expected no delay on any site.

I thought it may be a bad add-on so I removed all of them (4-5) and I desabled all plugins.  - No effect

I then un-installed firefox and re-installed it with no add-ons and the problem is still there.

I have been forced to go back to IE as this makes firefox unusable.

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i686-pc-mingw32

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
cl 	14.00.50727.762 	-GL -wd4624 -wd4952 -TC -nologo -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
cl 	14.00.50727.762 	-GR- -GL -wd4624 -wd4952 -TP -nologo -Zc:wchar_t- -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)

Configure arguments
--enable-application=browser --enable-update-channel=release --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-update-packaging --enable-official-branding --enable-jemalloc --with-crashreporter-enable-percent=10

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please try the Firefox safemode first :
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
and if that doesn't help try to create a new profile:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 2

[Jim Michaels]

I am in safe mode and I have the same problem, and my Kaspersky Internet Security is disabled and I have closed all my other apps.  FF is slow on the draw.
sample site to try: http://sf.net/projects/mingw/files/  maybe it is because they are using java, but I have the same problems with other sites.

firefox seems to spike the cpu regularly for no reason at all, sometimes for 5 seconds at 100%.  this is so unacceptable.  I am submitting a bug report under "firefox spikes cpu regularly for up to 5-10 seconds"

Comment 3

[Jim Michaels]

there is also an additional 10-second delay right-clicking a link (I intend to submit this as a separate bug as "10-second delay after right-click on link" right after this one).

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for Firefox General bugs filed against version 3.0 that are UNCO and have not been changed for 200 days.

Reporter, please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or alter. Firefox 3.0 is no longer supported and is no longer receiving updates. After you update, please create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/kb/managing+profiles, and test to see if your bug still exists. If you still the bug, then please post a comment with the version you tested against, and the problem. If the issue is no longer there, please set the RESOLUTION to  RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 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.