[Bug 362107] [NEW] [Jaunty] Firefox causes system hang on large pages

[adambard]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

I can cause my entire system to hang on cue if I do the following:

1) Find a page with sufficient load time.
http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.usb%20drive works really
consistantly for me, but it happens on many pages.

2) Scroll down the page when it's still loading.  I do this a lot; I'm
an impatient fellow.

3) The system stops accepting keyboard input and hangs.  The mouse is
still movable, but the system does not recover... at least not within
ten minutes or so, I stopped waiting.

The hardinfo-generated system report can be found at:
http://www.adambard.com/hardinfo_report.html

apt-cache policy firefox:
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What I expected to happen:  The system to not crash.
What happened: The system crashed.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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[Jaunty] Firefox causes system hang on large pages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362107
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