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firefox package

  1. Bug #513887
  2. Comment #45

Comment 45 for bug 513887

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Stefan Pszczolkowski (stefanpsz) wrote :

I forgot to confirm that setting dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so to false resolved the problem for me, but (obviously) only for pages that have flash contents.

I've developed a dummy HTML page with two links. The first one brings a plain HTML page (no JavaScript, no Java, no Flash) on a popup window and the second one brings a JavaScript alert window.

When I click the first link, firefox freezes.
When I click the second link, the alert window appears without any problem.

I've made this test to make sure the problem is only when you need to bring a popup window, and not when you need to execute JavaScript code (because to bring a popup window you need to execute JavaScript code)