Firefox 3.5.4 gives Mozilla is not responding message when terminated and takes 45 seconds

[jervin]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Ubuntu 9.10
Firefox 3.5.4

I started Firefox 3.5.4 on my Ubuntu 9.10 system, waited for it to settle down, then hit the 'x' to terminate. The home page on my system is about:blank. This is consistent and I hadn't told it to go to any web page. This is new behavior, could be related to my recent upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 and Firefox 3.5.4

I expected Mozilla Firefox to terminate quickly and w/o an error message.

I got a message "Mozilla Firefox is not responding" "You may choose to wait a short time while for it to continue or force the application to quit entire" / "Force Quit" "Wait". If I hit the Wait button or just wait, it takes about 40 to 45 seconds before the task terminates.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 7 17:44:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686