Firefox freezes.. Almost locks up System.

[Beeej]

Binary package hint: firefox

Not too sure what happens but as I am browsing using firefox.. Sometimes it seems to freeze the entire system. Even after I force quit firefox, System becomes unresponsive... Eventually when i get access to the console, I can do a killall firefox to get my system back.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: firefox 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jan 28 02:48:34 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Santiago Roland (santiago-roland)]

I have the same issue, it is firefox, after several minutes of waiting, i can see in the gnome-system-monitor that some tasks are Uninterrumpible, like Xorg, firefox-bin, plugin-container, evolution, etc.... An i can also notice that the hard drive is intensive accesed. I changed the urlclassifier.updatecachemax to some about 50 MB, and it got some better, but the firefox stills very choppy and unstable, i cannot have more than 10 tabs open and my system is a P4 2.8 GHz (HT) with 500GB 7200RPM HDD and 512MB of RAM...

[Mike (mikebus)]

I have this issue but only after upgrading to Ub11.04 and Ffox 4.02. Unable to recover at all - keyboard LED (num lock) goes out and mouse pointer disappears - sorry I upgraded now, cant even get to updates or get back into system without a complete power down.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Beeej 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 and Firefox since that time.

We'd like to close this bug report due to its age and long period of inactivity so please let us know if you still see a problem which is related to the one that was reported.

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]

[Beeej (bj-esmailbegui)]

I'm good with that.. it's been a while :D

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thanks Beeej, will mark as "Invalid" as cause of issue never established.