Bug#505481: /usr/bin/iceape: stop doesn't stop

[Gordon Haverland]

Package: iceape-browser
Version: 1.1.12-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/iceape

I got caught up in the USA election, and was visiting CNN Politics 
regularly.  Towards the end of the election, they came up with an IFRAME 
ticker.  This ticker will take 100% CPU if you let it, and the stop 
button does nothing to stop it.  I have visited other sites that also 
seem to accumulate large amounts of CPU time for hours after I have seen 
the site (and left the browser active on that site).

Turning off IFRAME in NoScript works, but really isn't the answer.  Ajax 
can be annoying, and this is one situation where it is.  There has to be 
some way of turning off this "out of bounds" programing when we don't 
want it.  I would have hoped that the STOP button in the browser would 
do this.  But, this button has absolutely no idea that something else is 
running, if it isn't the "main page", or so it seems to me.

I want to be able to visit a site and see information is a second or 
two.  At that point, I want ALL interaction initiated by that page to
cease!  I am willing to hit the STOP button to do this.  Many hours 
later, I might want to refresh the page, to see new information.  I will
hit the STOP button again if need be.  Is this something we can get?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iceape-browser depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-6.1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunspell-1.2-0      1.2.6-1           spell checker and morphological an
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d            4.7.1-4           NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d             3.12.0-5          Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-2          PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxft2                2.1.12-3          FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages iceape-browser recommends:
pn  iceape-gnome-support          <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages iceape-browser suggests:
pn  iceape-dom-inspector  <none>             (no description available)
pn  iceape-mailnews       <none>             (no description available)
ii  latex-xft-fonts       0.1-8              Xft-compatible versions of some La
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries

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