Hi, Sorry for the delayed answer.
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:44:13PM +0200, Paolo wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 2.0.0.14-0etch1 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > I think .14 is severely broken, iirc .13 wasn't that much bad - either the > whole 'net (or the DNS at least) has slowed down by an order of magnitude, > or Firefox got a bad commit lastly. > > Fact is, that I'm killing FF/IW the hard way quite often, it simply freezes > whenever it doesn't get an answer from DNS (or the site); if DNS (or the > site) never answers, it hangs forever, but in any case till DNS answers > it's completely out of reach, no way to stop it but via a solid SIGKILL. > > That's what I observed, that is; but it might be that it gets confused/fooled > by (proxy)filtered content, eg waiting for content definitely cut off by > privoxy(1). Other browsers work, though. And, as said, iirc .13 wasn't > _that_ bad, at least not to the point to force me to switch browser. > > Dillo(1) along the same net-path (ie same pc, local proxy (privoxy)) works > quite fine - ie laods reachable URLs, waits/timesout on those that don't > respond (either the URL itself or the DNS for such) but it stay responsive > to user control. > > Of course, Dillo can't cope with most bloa^H^H^H^Hfeatures-rich sites, so > I had to switch to Opera, at least temporarily. Can you still reproduce these issues with a newer version of iceweasel, from either lenny or squeeze ? Cheers, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

