583755 - Firefox 4b2 is unresponsive on opening Google stock price page

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Bennett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When I go to http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:HPQ the page appears but the links do not respond to clicking (and the underlines don't respond to hovering), and the entire Firefox interface becomes unusable. The exception is that the graph widget on the page is still interactive. The only thing that works is closing Firefox with the red "X" button (Windows 7).

Firefox 3.x has no problem with this page.

Firefox 4b1 also had no problem with this page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:HPQ
2. Try clicking on a link on the page.
3. Try changing to a different tab... or anything...
Actual Results:  
FF 4b2 becomes unusable. Can't interact with links on the page or change to a different tab.

Expected Results:  
Correct interactivity as exemplified by FF 3.x

I also found that if I open FF4b2, then open a separate session of FF4b2 and open the troublesome web page in that second session, the first session also hangs. Made it hard to file this bug the first time I tried. ;-p

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with FF4.0b2 on win7
Reporter:
Please try it again in the Firefox safemode
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

There's a crash at that location, see bug 579558. At least one user noticed a hang instead, bug 580670.

Comment 3

[Dan Bennett]

The behaviour is identical in safe mode. Only the interactive graph is operable. All other elements (links on the page, Firefox menu, etc) are inoperable.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using a pre-release version of Firefox 4. Now that Firefox 4.0.1 final has been released, can you please update and retest your bug? A fresh profile would be a good starting place to test, 
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles. If you continue to see the issue, can you please update this bug with your results?

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