[Bug 623625] [NEW] Slow load, almost hang on startup in both normal and safe-mode

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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

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


** Tags: apport-bug
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Slow load, almost hang on startup in both normal and safe-mode
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/623625
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