viewing page causes memory leak followed by system lockup

[Paddy Launch]

Binary package hint: firefox

Viewing the following page in Firefox always causes the entire system to grind to a halt almost immediately (you have been warned!) - this makes it very difficult to even kill firefox unless you are prepared as it very rapidly becomes virtually impossible to open a terminal window etc.

http://www.imperialracingteam.com/imperialracingteam/results0910.html?

(Suggest you have a "sleep 300; pkill -KILL firefox" already running in a terminal window before following the link).

Memory leak? Whatever it is, it shouldn't be happening... firefox shouldn't be bringing the whole system to its knees like that (regardless of how badly that particular webpage may be designed)! The page is viewable in Chrome.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-26.48-generic 2.6.32.24+drm33.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-26-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 16 17:24:57 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Paddy,

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 and Firefox since that time.

Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported in a currently supported version of Ubuntu?

Please let us know if you do otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]