Crash when trying to select another mirror on sourceforge

[Alexander Menk]

Binary package hint: firefox

Go to http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=stardict&filename=stardict-dictd_www.freedict.de_deu-eng-2.4.2.tar.bz2&use_mirror=puzzle

click "Select a different mirror?"

The site turns grey and CPU load rises very fast und blocks the whole Gnome-System until I kill firefox.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 18 16:02:57 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.3+1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux self-laptop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

I cannot reproduce it here. The page becomes grey but there is a highlighted
menu where you can select the desired mirror.

~$ dpkg -l | awk '$2 ~ /firefox$/ {print $2" "$3}'
firefox 2.0.0.3+1-0ubuntu2

Maybe you can provide us a backtrace (follow the hints from [1]).

Thank you in advance.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs#head-c576e78d92cb3c959c271158b6ace98be835de83

[Alexander Menk (alex-menk)]

okay, if I wait long enough (and I mean at least a minute, the page turns gray, 10s later the white popup is shown) .. but I've got a dual core 2 GHZ, 2 GB RAM which should do all this faster, I think ;-)

I made a backtrace with calling the URL, waiting for the page turn grey and then use xkill to interrupt firefox.

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

which extensions/plugins do you have enabled?

Try to check if firefox behaves the same manner in safe mode (e.g. calling it in a xterm with the flag -safe-mode)

[Alexander Menk (alex-menk)]

Adblock Plus was installed but disabled when reproducing the crash.
"firefox -safe-mode" shows the same behavior.

about:plugins:

Dateiname: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31

    Dateiname: libtotem-basic-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.18.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

    Dateiname: libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.18.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

    Dateiname: libtotem-mully-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.18.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

    Dateiname: libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.18.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

    Dateiname: libjavaplugin_oji.so
    Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0

All installed via ubuntu-restriced-extras Package.

[Alexander Menk (alex-menk)]

I cannot reproduce this anymore .. perhaps automatic updates in firefox fixed that .. or the sourceforge-guys changed something..

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Thank your Alexander for your feedback,

we are closing now this report, please, reopen it at any time if you
have more related info.

Thanks for your contribution. Don't hesitate to submit new crashes,