Bug 478313

Description of problem:
Selecting items in the advanced search page hangs the browser.  The fields go into a disabled state, while Firefox/IE uses 100% CPU, is un-suable, and finally reports the script is not responding.  Selecting "Stop" leaves the UI partially disabled.  However, allowing the script to continue, (with subsequent repeated popups), allows it to finally complete.  It took some trial and error to figure out what was actually happening.

Has it occurred to the web interface programmer that the venue for this website is a WAN of varying speeds, and that Ajax requests for voluminous content may take more than a few seconds to be delivered?  --Bad design!  :-(


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How reproducible:
Most every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On your typical Comcast connection.
2. Advanced Search tab
3. Pick: Fedora, Fedora
4. Wait for the browser to give up on you!
  
Actual results:
Confusion at what's happening.

Expected results:
Some sort of visual feedback??  Or, [gasp] use ajax asynchronously?

Additional info:
People that come here are usually pissed because something is screwed up.  We shouldn't need to diagnose why our browser has suddenly crashed on top of it!