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Slow load, almost hang on startup in both normal and safe-mode

Bug #623625 reported by dennis allison on 2010-08-24

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I am running firefox-3.6.8 even though the bug tracker does not believe it is available under Ubuntu.

The behavior is as if the system were waiting on one or more URLs to respond. It works fine moch of the time, but occasionally fails with the hanging like condition. Running firefox -safe-mode has much the same problems. Chrome has no problem loading.
My guess is that some site referenced in both normal and safe-mode is responding slowly and that the Firebox code does not have a timeout on the load.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 24 14:12:50 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/bin
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-28-generic i686

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dennis allison (allison-stanford) wrote on 2010-08-24:

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Monkey (monkey-libre) wrote on 2010-08-24:

I´ve assigned this bug to the firefox package.
Thank You for making Ubuntu better.

affects:

ubuntu → firefox (Ubuntu)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-10-16:

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

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote on 2013-06-24:

This bug is from Ubuntu 8.04 which stopped being supported on the Desktop several years. If you still have this bug on a more recent release (Ubuntu 12.04 or above), opening a new bug would be more useful.