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Firefox freezes (requires force quit in mac) intermittently while playing video files

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Firefox users report, and we have confirmed that the browser will intermittently freeze while playing videos on this page. These are .m4v videos playing in a modal window (lightview). Lightview developer does not think it has anything to do with his code. Support indicated that mod_deflate on the web server might be the culprit so we setup the page on a test server but got the same freeze behavior: http://dew.smith.edu/bigbad/religion/event-mmsymp.php#videos My testing was with firexfox mac 3.6.7 I have not been able to get other browsers to freeze (so far) which is why I am looking at firefox specifically.

URL of affected sites

http://www.smith.edu/bigbad/religion/event-mmsymp.php

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/533.16

Firefox users report, and we have confirmed that the browser will intermittently freeze while playing videos on this page. These are .m4v videos playing in a modal window (lightview). Lightview developer does not think it has anything to do with his code. Support indicated that mod_deflate on the web server might be the culprit so we setup the page on a test server but got the same freeze behavior: http://dew.smith.edu/bigbad/religion/event-mmsymp.php#videos My testing was with firexfox mac 3.6.7 I have not been able to get other browsers to freeze (so far) which is why I am looking at firefox specifically. == URL of affected sites == http://www.smith.edu/bigbad/religion/event-mmsymp.php == User Agent == Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/533.16

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AnonymousUser
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Just upgraded to 3.6.8 and problem continues. Firefox freezes while watching videos. May happen right away or after opening a closing a few videos but will eventually happen every time. Under OS X, a force quit is required. Firefox will not log this in about:crashes but OS X does and then reports it to apple. Here part of that report:

Date/Time: 2010-07-26 09:34:28 -0400 OS Version: 10.6.4 (Build 10F569) Architecture: x86_64 Report Version: 6

Command: Firefox Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin Version: 3.6.8 (3.6.8) Parent: launchd [1]

PID: 1371 Event: hang Duration: 3.27s (sampling started after 2 seconds) Steps: 13 (100ms sampling interval)

Pageins: 39 Pageouts: 0


Process: firefox-bin [1371] Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin UID: 501