Bug 748648 - opening hyperlinks from other applications freezes firefox and entire OS
Summary: opening hyperlinks from other applications freezes firefox and entire OS
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Jan Horak
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-25 01:07 UTC by fedvasu
Modified: 2012-08-09 13:57 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-09 13:57:48 UTC
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Description fedvasu 2011-10-25 01:07:05 UTC
Description of problem:
clicking on hyperlinks(web links) which are present in a pdf file or yumex freezes firefox and fedora no way to recover(not even alt+F2 works).only hard (prezzing the button) shutdown to recover from freeze ,which kills the entire session.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 16(current) version of firefox which says 7.0.1

How reproducible:
click on any hyperlinks(weblinks) from any other application which should open in firefox.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a pdf containing weblinks or yumex click on any site links 
2.firefox opens and then ...
3.
  
Actual results:
Firefox freezes and within a second or two whole Environment freezes. no way to kill firefox , no way to open a terminal or any such thing.

Expected results:
firefox should gracefully open the link and display the content of that webpage.
even if something bad happens , alt+F2 or such mechanism should work.

Additional info:
I'm using fedora 16(completely yum updated as i write) desktop environment Gnome 3 and i haven't contaminated it by installing any other libraries like QT4.

I don't know any work around expect shuting the whole thing down , which is pathetic if this is a known bug please quickly stomp on this bugreport and yeah also the bug , if possible quickly :).

Comment 1 fedvasu 2011-11-03 14:08:23 UTC
it's not a bug? say anything, otherwise close this report , looks pretty bad, an unanswered bug!

cheers.

Comment 2 Jan Horak 2012-03-28 14:24:35 UTC
We're really sorry for late answer, are you seeing this problem latest version of Firefox (11)?

Comment 3 fedvasu 2012-05-03 20:26:06 UTC
I think the hyperlinks are working just fine in FF 12,please keep this bug open for another 3-4 days, if i or anyone else doesn't comment or complain about any issue in that period, you should close this bug, i almost forgot about this filed bug!

so keep it open for 3-4 days and after that you can close it(ofcourse if you don't mind!).


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