Firefox freezes system on page load in Jaunty

Bug #300765 reported by Drew Meigs
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When I click a link, any link, in firefox, the program freezes, as does the system. It never crashes though. It will remain frozen for around thirty seconds and then work like nothing every happened. The unfortunate part is, it happens every time I click on a link to anywhere. I checked my flash plugins as well as trying a variety of pages to see if there could have been some kind of programming causing it. nothing. The program goes dark and I can't click on anything, though I can move my cursor freely. Not sure what the problem is and couldn't find my exact problem in any other bugs. I am running the Alpha of Jaunty, so things like this are expected. At best, this is just annoying. Thank you.

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mmomjian (matthew-momjian) wrote :

confirmed, let me know what info is needed. My pauses are more like 10s

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Confirmed
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add more information for it following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs . This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem. , Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

I don't see this in the system I upgraded to Jaunty a few days ago. Is this still a problem?

Changed in firefox-3.0:
assignee: nobody → r0lf
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Dave Stroud (bigdavesr) wrote :

in jaunty this happens to me also. Not on eery page. It acts like it is trying to do soething. The hard drive light will stay on till it stops whate ever its doing.Some times I have to stop it with froce quit.But most of the time it will go by itself after ten or fifteen seconds. It acts kind of like the older versions of fire fox during a memory over run.

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Dave, thank you for reporting back.

Unassigning myself from this and referring back to Charlie's request for more information.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
assignee: r0lf → nobody
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Dave Stroud (bigdavesr) wrote :

this is still happening to me and is a serious problem. thanks

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Dave Stroud (bigdavesr) wrote :

The last kernal update seems to have stoped this for me. Will keep an eye on it. Thanks agan

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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rja (rajeshjadvani) wrote :

I don't think this is a Firefox-only issue. I upgraded to Jaunty on the day of release, but didn't use the desktop till yesterday. I'm seeing all software behave the same way. Specifically: Firefox, Pidgin and Picasa 3 beta (from the Google repository), and whatever program is the default image viewer.

Will get more information today and report it here. If I should be adding these details to another bug which more accurately captures the problem, please let me know.

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rja (rajeshjadvani) wrote :

I didn't see the problem again. It was probably solved by some updates that I downloaded at the end of the day I saw this behaviour.

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