806159 - Firefox becomes unresponsive within minutes after open link http://www.cringely.com/

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[douglas godfrey]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20121024073032

Steps to reproduce:


1) 3 firefox windows already open
2) open a new blank firefox window
3) enter link http://www.cringely.com/
4) scroll down using window scroll buttons
5) firefox shows severe slow-down [2-3 seconds to scroll 1 line]
6) right click on link to full article [5 seconds for context menu, 5 seconds to open link]
7) try to close the newly opened window
8) 50-100 clicks on the close button [90 seconds] were needed before the window closed 
9) unresponsive script menu was never displayed
10) CPU was at 100% for 1 CPU

Comment 1

[douglas godfrey]

immediately after all windows for www.cringely.com were closed,
firefox became responsive again

Comment 2

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

I can not reproduce on OS X 10.8. This may be a Snow Leopard problem. If someone could verify that would be great. Someone should try Lion as well.

Comment 3

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

What device are you using with Firefox? E.G. iMac (2011, 3.1 GHz, 6 GB of RAM)

Comment 4

[douglas godfrey]

Mac Pro 2008; 8 core 16GB RAM 16TB Disk 4TB free
OS X 10.6.8 with all patches applied

Adblock Plus 2.1.2
Adblock Plus Pop-Up Addpn 0.4
BetterPrivacy 1.68
NoScript 2.6

Comment 5

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

Yeah... So it is definitely on our side. It works fine on my Mac Mini (2011, dual-core, 8 GB RAM, 500GB HD) on OS X 10.8.2.

However, the issue does not occur for me. Does the issue occur if you only drag the scrollbar (Do not press the arrows)?

Comment 6

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

Could either Douglas or someone on Snow Leopard please test the issue on the latest Nightly. Thanks, we can't go anywhere to I check this.

Comment 7

[Liz Henry (:lizzard)]

Looks like the relevant site has changed since this bug was reported. I am unable to reproduce the bug.