917256 - Firefox freezes with Flash Player missing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 916504

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Have no Flash plug-in installed.
2. Load http://wardcunningham.github.io/

AR: FF 26.0a1 (2013-09-15) Win 7 x64. freezes. Restart FF and try again if doesn't freeze on the first time.
FF 24, 25 works fine.

Comment 1

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

crash report using http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/crashfirefox.exe when it's frozen:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/93ee95c3-9b39-419d-a6c9-909322130917

Comment 2

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

Hm, i don't see an obvious scenario here. Per thread 0, could we be stuckin some script? How would we tell?
Benjamin, do you have suggestions here?

Comment 3

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

Does this reproduce in safe mode, with the profiler and other extensions disabled?
(I see that thread 5 is a profiler thread)

Comment 4

[[:Aleksej]]

2013-09-17-03-02-14-mozilla-central-firefox-26.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64 spends over 10 seconds frozen while loading that page for me.

Comment 5

[[:Aleksej]]

(In reply to Aleksej [:Aleksej] from comment #4)
OK, maybe it was just that the throbber wasn't moving.

Comment 6

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

(In reply to Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche] from comment #3)
> Does this reproduce in safe mode, with the profiler and other extensions
> disabled?
Yes

Comment 7

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

I'll try to find a regression range tomorrow.

Comment 8

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This appears to be a duplicate of bug 916504.

Comment 9

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Confirm it's fixed in 27.0a1 (2013-09-18), Win 7, Ubuntu 13.04