Firefox 47.0 hangs when accessing cnn.com

[Bob Willcox]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:13:24PM +0200, Jan Beich wrote:
> Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> writes:
> 
> > I updated my firefox 46.0.1 to 47.0_1.1 yesterday (Sunday) and now when I go
> > out to cnn.com it hangs, eventually putting up a dialog box telling me that a
> > script has stop working (or something similar). Nothing I've tried so far
> > seems to help and I wind up having to kill firefox.
> 
> Does firefox print anything on terminal or in ~/.xsession-errors ? Check
> about:addons for possible culprits (plugins[1], extensions, user scripts).
> Try running firefox with an empty profile. Maybe install NoScript and
> gradually enable domains until the hang reappears.
> 
> [1] When updating linux- plugins make sure to run
> 
>       $ nspluginwrapper -a -v -i

Hi Jan,

Thanks for your response. I started up firefox from an xterm window so that I
could see/capture the console output and here's what I get:

bob at luke:10 /.amd_mnt/vader/host/stor/home/bob> firefox
1465562740817   addons.xpi      WARN    Error loading bootstrap.js for {f69e22c7-bc50-414a-9269-0f5c344cd94c}: SyntaxError: missing ; before statement (resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/bob/.mozilla/firefox/8cf81tbu.Bob/extensions/%7Bf69e22c7-bc50-414a-9269-0f5c344cd94c%7D.xpi!/bootstrap.js:1228:61) JS Stack trace: @XPIProvider.jsm:4540:1 < this.XPIProvider.loadBootstrapScope at XPIProvider.jsm:4540:7 < this.XPIProvider.callBootstrapMethod at XPIProvider.jsm:4616:9 < this.XPIProvider.startup at XPIProvider.jsm:2721:13 < callProvider at AddonManager.jsm:227:12 < _startProvider at AddonManager.jsm:833:5 < AddonManagerInternal.startup at AddonManager.jsm:1016:9 < this.AddonManagerPrivate.startup at AddonManager.jsm:2783:5 < amManager.prototype.observe at addonManager.js:56:7
1465562740817   addons.xpi      WARN    Add-on {f69e22c7-bc50-414a-9269-0f5c344cd94c} is missing bootstrap method startup

(process:72294): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_path_get_basename: assertion 'file_name != NULL' failed

*********************** I went to cnn.com at this point ************************

(npviewer.bin:72308): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (5555)

(npviewer.bin:72308): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: luke:0.0
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: failed to initialize plugin-side RPC client connection

(npviewer.bin:72327): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (5555)

(npviewer.bin:72327): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: luke:0.0
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: failed to initialize plugin-side RPC client connection

(npviewer.bin:72347): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (5555)

(npviewer.bin:72347): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: luke:0.0
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: failed to initialize plugin-side RPC client connection

(npviewer.bin:72366): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (5555)

(npviewer.bin:72366): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: luke:0.0
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: failed to initialize plugin-side RPC client connection

(npviewer.bin:72386): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (5555)

(npviewer.bin:72386): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: luke:0.0
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: failed to initialize plugin-side RPC client connection

(npviewer.bin:72406): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (5555)

(npviewer.bin:72406): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: luke:0.0
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: failed to initialize plugin-side RPC client connection

***** at this point firefox put up the unresponsive script dialog box *****


As it turns out, my user ID is 5555 so the npviewer.bin warning lines appear
to be due to something related to my ID.

I'm going to try the other things you suggested next and see where that takes
me.

Thanks,
Bob


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