Comment 10 for bug 277068

Ok I don't know if this is relevant but it is certainly possible that it is relevant, because I was having the very same issue... and after inspection it turned out to be openssl that was causing it (or rather the supplied binaries of it, more specifically the release version of libeay32.lib).

The reason why you haven't seen this hang happen is probably because you use debug builds for majority of the time, or am I wrong?

In any case, I sorted my problem by compiling openssl again... I don't know what kind of configuration you use to build it but there must be quite some differences because the libs I get are both (debug and release) around 0,7 and 3,7 mbs... while your release version of libeay32.lib is 27,6 mb. (I simply compiled using the defaults, with the exception of not using shared dlls as the format).

tbh. I am rather curious as to where the difference in size comes from and why you supply pre-compiled binaries to begin with (especially since you only do it for 32bit).