Firefox Freezing

[James McDonald]

> Is it just me or is anyone else suddenly having problems with Firefox
> freezing
> when trying to load a page. I'm using Firefox v1.0.7 (Debian package
> 1.0.7-1)
> and it seems to me that this problem just started this week.
>
> The specific symptom is a complete freeze of Firefox while loading a page,
> such that I have to kill the process. If I disable Javascript this does
> not
> happen but, of course, those parts of the page which rely on Javascript
> are
> not rendered.
>
> As best I can tell, I have not upgraded recently and I've seen at least
> one
> report of the same or similar problem with v1.5
>
There is an DOS exploit whereby firefox can be made to hang when a page
sends it a massive page title using javascript to create the big title.

Once the page is in firefox's cache it causes ff to hang on load aswell.

Your problem may be related.