824422 - Saving a page on slow storage hangs the whole browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 198061

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Mayank Bansal]

Attachment: about support.txt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121223 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20121223030832

Steps to reproduce:

1.  Ensure you have a slow storage on your PC. I have a very slow micro SD card.
2. Go to a heavy page with some images and stuff.  I went to 9gag.com .  Scroll down there till you have lots of images on the page.
3. Go to File->save page as -> Web page complete.    Select the slow storage as the target for saving the webpage.


Actual results:

The complete browser hangs.  The browser hangs till the page is being written to the storage.


Expected results:

Browser interactivity and saving a page to disc should be independent of each other.

http://people.mozilla.com/~bgirard/cleopatra/#report=52a9da7a0a1bc4d65b99e636235280f52fcf7c20

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Is it also slower than the storage usually allows?

Maybe bug 623866 or a bug mentioned there.

Comment 2

[Mayank Bansal]

Slowness in saving pages is OK, because the storage is very slow.
Whats not OK at all is that the main  UI is unresponsive during this saving. UI should not be affected during a save page.