637037 - Add-ons Manager -> Get Add-Ons has a halting script.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 636884

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Bryan Price (:bytehead)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12

A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding.  You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will comple.

Script: https://static.addons.mozilla.net/media/zamboni/discovery-pane-min.js?build=ea72fbb:16

Copied from my 64-bit Minefield, but it happens on this version as well.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110226 Firefox/4.0b13pre

Neither button recovers Mozilla to a usable state.  I'm forced to kill it and restart it.

Technically, I guess this is a web site issue, but since it's also a built-in page, I think it needs to be addressed here, especially since whatever the user chooses, the program is hosed. 100% core/cpu utilization.  Quad core here, luckily. :)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to Add-ons Manager
2.Select Get Add-ons
3.Wait for Mozilla to complain it's taking too long.
4.Select either button choice.
Actual Results:  
Hung Mozilla, core/cpu is hung at 100%.  I had to resort to killing it to get control back.

Expected Results:  
At least the script should fail if I tell it to stop, not hang.  It should work as designed, otherwise.

AvantGard 5.0 for my theme.  Various other extensions, but I doubt those would actually affect the problem one way or another.