Bug#698637: iceweasel 10.0.12esr-1 freezes machine completely on somw websites

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 04:38:56PM +0000, Holger Weiss wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 10.0.12esr-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> Visiting some websites (e.g. "www.bild.de<http://www.bild.de>", or our company internal IT-website)
> with "iceweasel-10.0.12esr-1" freezes the computer completely. I cannot switch
> to console tty1, nor can I log in via ssh. The computer completly stops !
> Another browser (Midori) works fine on that websites.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> Just visited "www.bild.de<http://www.bild.de>".
> 
> The machine had been installed a new with Debian Wheezy amd-64 some days ago
> (Debian Installer 7.0..). The error seems to come from the new iceweasel
> version.
> 
> On another machine (with identical hardware) with an older Wheezy system (last
> update some months ago) "iceweasel-10.0.09esr-1"  it is working fine.
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> Completly frozen computer - hard reset necessary
> It might be some java-scripting that causes the freeze ?
> It might also be the "add-block-plugin" in iceweasel ?
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> No freeze - just viewing the website.

Did you try disabling all plugins and addons?

Mike