Closed Bug 791671 Opened 12 years ago Closed 8 years ago

When waiting for a modal dialog, Firefox heats up the CPU

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
15 Branch
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 615931

People

(Reporter: nekohayo, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: DUPEME?) 

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0
Build ID: 20120828083103

Steps to reproduce:

Go to a website that requires authentication (ie with an htaccess/htpasswd rule), and let the password prompt sit there unattended (it doesn't even need to be the foreground tab).

Alternatively, use google calendar and have it show a modal popup dialog to alert you of an appointment, and let that alert sit there.

This may or may not be a related issue, but it seems that trying to load an unresponsive website (such as http://www.fooishbar.org/ ) will also cause the cpu temp to rise in a similar way.


Actual results:

My Core i7 CPU heats up. Internal temperature gradually goes up from 46°C to 55-60, making the fans whirr.


Expected results:

Stay cool!
There are a few other reports about about CPU usage with dialogs…
Whiteboard: DUPEME?
Resolving bug as duplicate.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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