keyboard/mouse freeze upon visiting news.yahoo.com

[Raleigh Daniel Stout]

Using the standard NoScript whitelist and Firefix web browser, the keyboard and mouse lock up when visiting an individual news story web page at news.yahoo.com. This has occured with USB mouse and PS-2 mouse and has been recreated several times since about 7/21/11. The only recourse upon lockup is to reboot the PC because there is no access to the Force-Quit control in the panel of Ubuntu 11.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 25 11:56:55 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
 flashplugin-installer 10.3.181.34ubuntu0.11.04.1
 adobe-flashplugin N/A
 icedtea-plugin 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-01 (54 days ago)

[Raleigh Daniel Stout (raleigh-stout)]

7/27/11 was unable to recreate this bug for the first time. I visited a specific web page at news.yahoo.com expecting the computer to lock up, but nothing happened and I was able to use both keyboard and mouse.

[Raleigh Daniel Stout (raleigh-stout)]

The problem returned 08/05/11. This time the keyboard and mouse froze on the main page at news.yahoo.com. I did not have to visit a specific news web page as before to recreate this problem.

[Raleigh Daniel Stout (raleigh-stout)]

The problem returned 08/09/11. This time the keyboard and mouse froze on the main page at news.yahoo.com. I did not have to visit a specific news web page as before to recreate this problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Raleigh Daniel Stout (raleigh-stout)]

I am glad to know it wasn't just me. I have been keeping up with natty updates and lately I have not seen the problem recur. I visit Yahoo! News almost daily now with no problems noted except as in previous comments.

[Raleigh Daniel Stout (raleigh-stout)]

The problem returned 09/22/11. This time the keyboard and mouse froze on the main page at news.yahoo.com. I did not have to visit a specific news web page as before to recreate this problem. This problum recurs after a long time of having incidents.

[Raleigh Daniel Stout (raleigh-stout)]

The problem returned 09/22/11. This time the keyboard and mouse froze on the main page at news.yahoo.com. I did not have to visit a specific news web page as before to recreate this problem. This problem recurs after a long time of not having further incidents with news.yahoo.com, and I was surprised to see it return.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Raleigh (and anyone else affected),

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review 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.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported? Please let us know if you do.

If we do not hear from you this bug report will expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Raleigh Daniel Stout (raleigh-stout)]

Thank you for checking in. I have since convinced myself that the freezing
of keyboard and mouse at the Yahoo! News website had more to do with
javascript and advertising and tracking downloads. I now block as many of
those advertisers and trackers as I can.

You can close the bug report. I was not fully aware at the time I reported
it that javascript, ads, and trackers, could have an impact. The freezing
of keyboard and mouse probably mean that the browser has not fully
processed all the downloads called for by the web site.

Regards,

Raleigh Stout

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 2:05 PM Paul White <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Raleigh (and anyone else affected),
>
> We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review 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.
>
> Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported? Please
> let us know if you do.
>
> If we do not hear from you this bug report will expire in approximately
> 60 days time.
>
> Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.
>
> Paul White
> [Ubuntu Bug Squad]
>
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/815984
>
> Title:
> keyboard/mouse freeze upon visiting news.yahoo.com
>
> Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Using the standard NoScript whitelist and Firefix web browser, the
> keyboard and mouse lock up when visiting an individual news story web
> page at news.yahoo.com. This has occured with USB mouse and PS-2
> mouse and has been recreated several times since about 7/21/11. The
> only recourse upon lockup is to reboot the PC because there is no
> access to the Force-Quit control in the panel of Ubuntu 11.04.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Mon Jul 25 11:56:55 2011
> FirefoxPackages:
> firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
> flashplugin-installer 10.3.181.34ubuntu0.11.04.1
> adobe-flashplugin N/A
> icedtea-plugin 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386
> (20100429)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-01 (54 days ago)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/815984/+subscriptions
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[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Raleigh, thanks for helping to close over 1000 untouched or outdated Firefox bug reports. As your bug report was confirmed by another without comment I'm closing it as "Invalid" due to the time that has elapsed since the initial report and your comments re page content.