Here is a screencast of how this affects me. At least in my occasion, it seems obviously caused by many (many!) bookmarks in my menu.
Note that this is a blazingly fast machine, with lots of memory and only SSDdrives; so the problem solves itself fast. When my bookmarks were imported on an old/thin machine, FF halted for over 20 minutes before becoming responsive again. In this case, the solution clearly lies in "less bookmarks". But AFAIK that should either be enforced by firefox not allowing more then X bookmarks in a menu. Or firefox/unity-menu only loading a subset into the menu. ** Attachment added: "Screencast of the freezing in action." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/874260/+attachment/2723430/+files/out-1.ogv -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874260 Title: Firefox freezes when I right click or try to open up bookmarks. Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu 11.10 Unity 2D Firefox 7.0.1 When I right click on a link firefox freezes for a short period of time, and then when it un-freezes, the link I clicked on, never opens. It also freezes when I try to click on a bookmark on my bookmark bar, then it never opens it. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: firefox 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/pcmC1D0c: david 1327 F...m pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: david 1327 F.... pulseaudio BuildID: 20111008085056 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'ICH5'/'Intel ICH5 with AD1981B at irq 17' Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981B' Components : 'AC97a:41445374' Controls : 28 Simple ctrls : 20 Card1.Amixer.info: Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x9a4'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x9a4 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-1, high speed' Mixer name : 'USB Mixer' Components : 'USB046d:09a4' Controls : 2 Simple ctrls : 1 Card1.Amixer.values: Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum Capture channels: Mono Limits: Capture 0 - 3072 Mono: Capture 1 [0%] [23.00dB] [on] Channel: release Date: Fri Oct 14 10:03:17 2011 ForcedLayersAccel: False IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) IpRoute: default via 24.29.24.1 dev eth0 proto static 24.29.24.0/23 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 24.29.25.237 metric 1 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 IwConfig: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0.1/20111008085056 (Running) PulseSinks: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list-sinks'] failed with exit code 1: Daemon not responding. PulseSources: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list-sources'] failed with exit code 1: Daemon not responding. RfKill: RunningIncompatibleAddons: False SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (0 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 08/01/2003 dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp. dmi.bios.version: BF86510A.15A.0043.P07.0308011434 dmi.board.name: D865GLC dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation dmi.board.version: AAC28705-404 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: none dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway dmi.chassis.version: NSC45A07 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrBF86510A.15A.0043.P07.0308011434:bd08/01/2003:svnGateway:pnMIDWAY:pvr4000824:rvnIntelCorporation:rnD865GLC:rvrAAC28705-404:cvnGateway:ct3:cvrNSC45A07: dmi.product.name: MIDWAY dmi.product.version: 4000824 dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/874260/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
