784243 - Mac Firefox "Restart to Update" hangs with multiple "Unresponsive Script" warnings

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

I am running Beta 15 and Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) on an iMac. Many times when I "Restart to Update" to a new major or minor version, Firefox will hang. This has been happening for months.

Sometimes I must force-quit Firefox, but other times the "About" window will report multiple "Unresponsive Script" warnings pointing to XPCOMUtils.jsm line 323.

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/360ab7771e27/js/xpconnect/loader/XPCOMUtils.jsm#l323

Frustratingly, I am unable to reproduce the problem by installing an older build and manually forcing an update. This suggests an addon might be leaking resources such that Firefox must be running for a long time before the update process will hang.

Do any of the following addons have known problems? Is there anything I can do to help debug or log what is hanging when I update?

I have the following extensions installed:
  * Adblock Plus 2.1.2
  * Always Ask 2.0pre
  * Find Toolbar Tweaks 3.0.0
  * Ghostery 2.8.0.2
  * HTTPS-Everywhere 2.1
  * PDF Viewer 0.3.452
  * YouTube quality manager 1.2
  * Adobe Acrobat - Create PDF 1.2 (DISABLED)

I have the following plugins installed:
  * AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin 1.0.16
  * QuickTime Plug-in 7.7.1
  * Shockwave Flash 11.3.300.271
  * Silverlight Plug-in 5.0.61118.0
  * Adobe Acrobat NPAPI Plug-in 10.1.3 (DISABLED)
  * iPhotoPhotocast 7.0 (DISABLED)
  * Java Applet Plug-in 14.3.0 (DISABLED)

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

I can no longer reproduce this problem.