Ticket #549 (closed defect: duplicate)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 11 months ago

Firefox temporally stopped by DownThemAll 1.0

Reported by: foxtensor Assigned to:
Priority: critical Milestone:
Component: --- Version: 1.0
Keywords: Cc:
Operating System: Windows

Description

Hi,

I'm a proud user of DownThemAll! for the last 2 years, but the version 1.0 is causing temporal stops in the load of the pages in Firefox (these stops can extends for 1 or 2 minutes). I already saw the error in the beta version, and today with the new 1.0 the error is here again.

A few days ago, I had to create a new Firefox profile, because the error obstructs my work. Well, the error reappeared when after install the beta 1.0.

Now, the error reappears with DownThemAll 1.0.

Thanks in advance.

Change History

(follow-up: ↓ 2 ) 2008-03-10 01:27:57 changed by Jeton

I thought that this wasn't caused by dTA. But now that's bing reported, I have the same issue as well. When the problem occurs, i try to open the same site in IE and it loads, but in Firefox it doesn't.

(in reply to: ↑ 1 ) 2008-03-10 01:56:29 changed by foxtensor

Replying to Jeton:

I have the same issue as well.

Yes, the error persists even in clean profile.

2008-03-10 01:58:49 changed by Jeton

There's another ticket which explains which settings cause the issue: http://bugs.code.downthemall.net/trac/ticket/575

2008-03-12 12:15:23 changed by Bibiwinter

I think the initial ticket reports a different but from the one Jeton is talking about. I had both now and I solved the one referred to in the link Jeton provides, but the initial bug remains, which is the complete hang of Firefox for 1 or 2 minutes.

For me, it happens after dTA finishes a series of downloads. When dTA finishes and the Download Manager window closes, Firefox just hangs for a couple of minutes. I can do anything with my other programs, but all Firefox windows are frozen, and then after a while, it comes back to normal. Aside from that, Firefox works fine and lightning fast. No timeouts on pages or images.

My Firefox is 2.0.0.12 I'm on Windows Vista 32 bits dTA version is 1.0

(follow-up: ↓ 6 ) 2008-03-19 03:02:46 changed by bucmoe

I am getting the same thing with both Firefox 2.0.0.12 and 3.0b2 When I have a list of things to download Firefox just become unresponsive. This didn't happen in the previous version. Will it be fixed soon?

(in reply to: ↑ 5 ) 2008-03-20 03:15:13 changed by fromSA

Replying to bucmoe:

I am getting the same thing with both Firefox 2.0.0.12 and 3.0b2 When I have a list of things to download Firefox just become unresponsive. This didn't happen in the previous version. Will it be fixed soon?

I was going to submit a ticket for this, but it looks like I'm not the only one. I can confirm that I've been through the clear cache/new profile/disable other addons procedure and only when removing DownThemAll does my browser return to normal speeds.

I'll keep track of this and hopefully there will be a patch soon.

2008-03-27 20:44:07 changed by ukemike

The closed 575 ticket has a discussion that shows how to work around the problem and it worked for me. I have been trying to figure out what was wrong for WEEKS! I uninstalled dTa and reset all the network.http variables to default. That fixed my problem. Then I re-installed dTa and it did not change the network.http settings. So this may have been partially addressed already, but I would like to suggest that an additional measure be taken. Please release a patch which will reset the network.http variables to default. There have to be lots of users that are pulling their hair out, paying money to their isp for service calls that don't fix the problem, or switching to IE7. I did all three.

(follow-up: ↓ 9 ) 2008-03-27 21:37:54 changed by ukemike

Note: after I made the changes to about:config I used dTa again, and it again set my network.http settings to unreasonable levels.

network.http.max-connections 104 network.http.max-connections-per-server 52 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 26

Until a patch is issued it appears that uninstalling dTa is the best solution. Naughty dTa. Go to your room!

(in reply to: ↑ 8 ) 2008-03-27 22:22:45 changed by Jeton

Replying to ukemike:

Note: after I made the changes to about:config I used dTa again, and it again set my network.http settings to unreasonable levels. Until a patch is issued it appears that uninstalling dTa is the best solution. Naughty dTa. Go to your room!

Unfortunately this is true. I'm not using it as well for now, until a solution is found. Along with the problem of not remembering the folders history for saving files.

2008-03-31 06:28:15 changed by MaierMan

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to duplicate.

*** Marked duplicate of #613 ***