Your message dated Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:33:13 +0200
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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #447322,
regarding iceweasel: ssl redirects slow when server uses gzip compression
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.6-0etch1
Severity: normal
This bug has also been reported by Ubuntu users:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/76262
Basically, when loading a SSL page with gzip compression where there is some
sort of redirect happening (whether via an apache Redirect or via PHP), the
browser hangs for up to 10 seconds. This happens more often than not with an
average wait longer than 5 seconds, giving the impression that there is
something pretty broken on the server.
I've only tested with Apache 2 and mod_deflate on the server. Not sure if the
bug manifests with Apache 1.3 and mod_gzip. If I turn off mod_deflate, the
problem goes away. I noticed the bug recently because I only turned on
mod_deflate recently on one of my servers.
The problem does not show up in Firefox 2 running on Windows. It also doesn't
show up in Epiphany, which suggests that it's not a Gecko problem.
If you don't have access to a server with SSL and gzip compression, feel free
to e-mail me privately and I can send you some URLs for testing.
Thanks!
Ed
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5+etch1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-7 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmyspell3c2 1:3.1-18 MySpell spellchecking library
ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxp6 1:1.0.0.xsf1-1 X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
iceweasel recommends no packages.
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Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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