Bug#510511: [iceweasel] Browsing www.ucsd.edu hogs all CPU

[Mike Hommey]

Hi,

Sorry for the late answer.

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:34:45PM +0100, Valerio Passini wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.0.5-1
> Severity: normal
> 
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> Dear developers,
> 
> I hope to not bother you too much. I'm trying to access www.ucsd.edu but soon after the page is 
> loaded iceweasel becomes really slow and all the system becomes unresponsive, closing that webpage 
> returns the system back to normal. Giving a look to the system resources allocation with top I can 
> see that xorg is eating cpu, but in my opinion iceweasel and/or Gecko must be considered 
> responsible, in fact epiphany is behaving the same (from a quick look I have noticed they both have 
> gecko 1.9,  isn't it?), while konqueror works good and everything is fine. I have also tried the 
> mozilla.com release and it has problems too while the old iceweasel 2.0 works fine. 
> Summarizing, I think that there is something wrong with gecko 1.9 browsing this website.
> I'm at you disposition if you have any idea about how to correct this bug, in the meanwhile I'm 
> going to use konqueror to browse that site. See you

I can't reproduce this bug with either version 3.0.6-1 or 3.5.6-1. Has
the web site changed since then ?

Mike