598602 - Gmail on opening hangs browser

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Amit D]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6

Using firefox 4 beta 6 for last few weeks and many times when i try to access
gmail, gmail opens up and after few seconds all hangs up.
All looked fine for earlier versions.Cant really pin point if it is FF but can say for sure that firefox hangs.Interestingly if i switch to basic html version of gmail all seems stable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit http://mail.google.com/ 
2.Login with into google account 
3.gmail "standard" version begins to load..
4.Everything works fine for few seconds
Actual Results:  
after few mins of opening gmail firefox hangs.

Expected Results:  
Gmail standard version should work as normally expected.

Comment 1

[Amit D]

the bug is not always Reproducible...

Comment 2

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Does the issue still occur if you start Firefox in Safe Mode? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

How about with a new, empty profile? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#Make_a_new_profile

Does the issue occur with the latest nightly? http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 3

[Amit D]

nope firefox seems to work fine now :)
bug seems to have been fixed.
Currently using FF 4.0b10 on win7 x64