752639 - Firefox doesn't display a Wikipedia page while other browsers do

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Arno Lagrange]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120420145725

Steps to reproduce:

I try to access http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedio:Internacia_Vikipedio/Artikolnombro_de_%C4%89iuj_Vikipedioj (a page I edited with a lot of calls to two templates: http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Cablono:Artikolnombro_de_%C4%89iuj_vikipedioj/linio and http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Cablono:Nombro_da/dateno)


Actual results:

I get an error message from Wikimedia server ("Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. .... "). With other browsers (Google chrome, IE, Opera) the page is shown after a short time. 

The server reports : 
NewPP limit report
Preprocessor node count: 627640/1000000
Post-expand include size: 190699/2048000 bytes
Template argument size: 28359/2048000 bytes
Expensive parser function count: 0/500


Expected results:

Probably the many times called template should be put in a cache and isn't.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I see the page load just fine in Firefox 12 over here.  I did reproduce it being slow once, but when I tried Opera and Chrome right after that, they also ended up with the error message.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

took forever to load, but looks fine when using current nightly