Firefox hangs on Tools/Add-ons

[peterzay]

Binary package hint: firefox

When clicking on Tools and Add-ons, Firefox sometimes dims and becomes unresponsive. You get a popup warning of unresponsive script.

A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.

Script: file:///usr/lib/firefox-3.6.9/components/nsExtensionManager.js:623

Clicking either of the 2 options "Stop script" or "Continue" makes no difference. The Firefox process needs to be ended.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 11 18:17:44 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

This bug looks a lot like bug 630625. Even though that bug was filed slightly before this one, it seems to me that perhaps that bug should be marked as a duplicate of this one, since this bug provides more information (as attachments), and the person who filed that bug appears not to be following its progression (i.e. not responding to a query as to why he indicated the seemingly unrelated upstream bug mozilla-bugs #590608).

[peterzay (peterzay)]

This bug has not manifested itself in quite some time. I suspect Mozilla might have tuned this problem out of the code base in 3.6.10 or later. I would suggest leaving this bug Unassigned unless it happens again.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Peter, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Presumably we can now close this bug report?

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[peterzay (peterzay)]

This bug was reported about 8 years ago.

It is no longer a problem.

Please close this case.