Firefox is blocked by JS GC Helper
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
firefox (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Firefox sometimes freezes and turns gray when the process "JS GC Helper" is active. This is not a temporary freeze, but blocks Firefox completely until you close it.
There are two ways you could force quit Firefox:
1. By killing "firefox" in the system monitor, "JS GC Helper" won't be killed, and upon restart Firefox will tell that another instance is running (because its lock file hasn't yet released).
2. By killing "JS GC Helper", firefox closes also and you can restart it.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: firefox 20.0+build1-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-27-generic i686
AddonCompatChec
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
BuildID: 20130329030414
CRDA:
country DE:
(2400 - 2483 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
(5150 - 5250 @ 40), (N/A, 20), NO-OUTDOOR
(5250 - 5350 @ 40), (N/A, 20), NO-OUTDOOR, DFS
(5470 - 5725 @ 40), (N/A, 26), DFS
Channel: Unavailable
Date: Thu Apr 11 18:01:02 2013
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
default via 131.246.39.254 dev wlan0 proto static
131.246.32.0/21 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 131.246.38.154 metric 9
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
MarkForUpload: True
MostRecentCrashID: bp-b81166f7-
PrefSources: prefs.js
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=
RelatedPackageV
RunningIncompat
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/25/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: Q3B21
dmi.board.name: PRO600IW
dmi.board.vendor: MAXDATA
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixT
dmi.product.name: PRO600IW
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: MAXDATA
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.