Dear Debian edu users and developers. It's been 2.5 years ago, when I joined an even older bug report for Firefox 2.0. These days I had to find out that it isn't fixed in 4.0 nor 5.0.
For oranisations like us schools, this is a real show stopper, as users will have to wait for seconds until a new page opens (and in this time the whole Firefox/ Iceweasel GUI is frozen). https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235853 This bug is only visible if you use wpad.dat plus "auto detect proxy settings" in your browser. To witness the effect, just enter "test" in some search engine, and then click the first 4 hits using the mouse key in the middle (hence opening separate tabs for each hit). I bet you won't get to the 3rd hit, because you will witness the first freeze. The only work around is to use explicit proxy settings, which might be feasable - but complicated for big companies and schools. This is too bad, because the wide range of personal users don't suffer from this bug while potential multiplier of free software are deterred. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235853 Please get more attention for this bug by voting for it, especially if you are concered yourself. Thank you and kind regards Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
