firefox frequntly freezes on jaunty

[guivho]

Binary package hint: firefox

firefox frequently freezes when selecting links to pages with quite some graphical content, e.g. when surfing to http://livescience.com and surfing around on this page.

The behaviour is as follows: the circular wait cursor is shown, then the window turns colorless darkgrey-black, system is irresponsive, and after some 20 to 30 seconds, color comes back and everything is back to normal (not all media is available, but that's a different problem, I think)

The firefox of the xp virtual machine that I run (using virtualbox) does not suffer this problem. It is very responsive, and even shows all media content.

% lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

% apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[guivho (guivho)]

It even happens when surfing to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/, so it might not be graphics-reated after all.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, Jaunty has been released since your bug report. Please let us know if you are still having this issue. Thanks in advance.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please let us know if the update solved your issue? Thanks!

[guivho (guivho)]

This problem does not occur any more. I should have closed this bug report way back. But I honestly can not tell you when or how it got fixed. I really feel embarrassed that I forgot to post a follow-up.

Please close this bug. I do not know if and how I can do this myself.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Don't worry about it. The important thing is that your issue is solved.

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.