Site locks up Firefox 13

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Sun Jun 10 16:35:53 UTC 2012


On 10 June 2012 17:20, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> I allowed Firefox and Thunderbird to update from version 12 to 13.  This
> caused fonts on Thunderbird to sometimes be displayed too small.
>
> When googling to try to find a solution I came to this site:
>
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CIMBEKwCKAAwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforums.mozillazine.org%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D39%26t%3D2483621&ei=WsbUT_ygHoeq2gWssZW9Dw&usg=AFQjCNGLgeSc9mLRq_I8l-4VcEcVDfDyOQ&cad=rja
>
> Every time I click on that link it takes longer than usual to load, finally
> displays, after about 5 seconds the screen is overlayed with gray and the
> cpu goes to and stays between 96 & 100%.  Then I have to force quit Firefox.
>
> Some other links to mozillazine do the same.
>
> Running Ubuntu 10.04.  Wonder if anyone else is seeing this?

OK for me too on FF13, ubuntu 12.054 32 bit.  Do you see the same
thing if you logon as a different user?  Set up a test user if
necessary, or logon as the guest user.  That will tell you whether it
is a system problem or something to do with your user's settings.

Colin




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