[Bug 107093] System freezes (possibly Gecko)

[Cesare Tirabassi]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

I experience this bug since at least Herd 5. 
At one moment in time it was quite rare, now it is consistently appearing, sometime even after few seconds.
Firefox -safe-mode doesn't change anything.
Other Gecko based browsers (Epiphany, Galeon) are affected.
Non Gecko based (Dillo) works fine.

95% of the time the freeze is not "hard" (mouse cursor moving, alt-sys
keys recognised). The remaining 5% can only be recovered by hard power
down.

The freeze seems to be site dependant (launchpad being one of the
worst), but so far I was unable to correlate it to any particular event.
I have experienced freezes without any user interaction or network
activity.

Any other networks apps I tried did not show any similar problem.

** Affects: firefox (upstream)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

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

** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #377695
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377695

** Also affects: firefox (upstream) via
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377695
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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System freezes (possibly Gecko)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107093
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