533629 - Application freezes - think it's from adclick

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Katy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

screens go blank - first noticed it at Washington Post and now with Yahoo mail and news .... think it's the advertisements freezing it up.  Sadly, yahoo works on Vista without problem.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7pre) Gecko/20091208 Shiretoko/3.5.7pre

http://m.www.yahoo.com/ works fine for me. Have you tried:

- Firefox's safe-mode to exclude extension/theme problems
- a new profile
- a clean reinstallation

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#Make_a_new_profile

Please also read: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+hangs?bl=n

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

No response from reporter to comment 1; resolving INCOMPLETE.
Reporter, if you still see this problem with the latest Firefox version and a new profile, please reopen this bug. Thanks!