826800 - Beach ball hang when selecting site from Yahoo home page, Camino 2.1.2

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

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Attachment: Sample of Camino.txt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120308 Camino/2.1.2 (like Firefox/3.6.28)
Build ID: 20120308211433

Steps to reproduce:

Opened Camino 2.1.2, after selecting page from Yahoo home, 


Actual results:

Spinning beach ball, "Script unresponsive" comes up.


Expected results:

The text should not have frozen.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

See also bug 825372; I think Yahoo is serving up some script that the Gecko JS engine is choking on. I can't repro a beachball, but I can repro the "unresponsive script" errors on various Yahoo pages (or at least I could before I bitbucketed traffic to several of the non-Yahoo servers associated with the pages; I'd be happy to explain my workaround on the forums).

That said, it's probably not anything we can fix on our end. Yahoo should stop serving that script to older Gecko browsers, or stop serving it to anyone at all. About the only way this would be a Camino bug might be if you click "Stop script" and the script keeps running.