browser freezes while searching 20% of time

[rmsess]

Ubuntu 9.04 with Firefox updated to latest version now intermittently freezes during search and has to close down with hard reboot to "start new session" or "restore previous session"

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

Thanks for reporting the bug. When you say it freezes, are you referring to Firefox only, or to the whole system? Can you please provide a test case?

Thanks, again.

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

I am setting the bug to incomplete since more information are required. Please feel free to reopen it once you provide such info.
Thanks.

[rmsess (rmsess)]

All screen activity stops part way through a search. It is unique to
searching from Firefox 3.5. I have to close down by turning off power to
the computer. Reboot is always possible without difficulty, but the
problem may then occur episodically.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic one.

You can start the profile manager with the following command:
firefox-3.5 -ProfileManager

[rmsess (rmsess)]

Micah Gersten wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Sometimes Firefox profiles can
> become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try
> this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not
> need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want
> to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one
> until you find the problematic one.
>
> You can start the profile manager with the following command:
> firefox-3.5 -ProfileManager
>
> ** Package changed: firefox (Ubuntu) => firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>
Thank you for the tips. I'm not a techie and appreciate the help.

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[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

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!