Bug#553635: Javascript waits for infinitity for blocked content

[Mike Hommey]

Hi,

Sorry for the delay.

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 05:37:56PM +0000, markhobley at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.0.6-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> I visit the following website:
> 
> https://secure.beepy.co.uk/checkout/
> 
> The browser freezes whilst waiting for ssl.google-analytics.com, which 
> is blocked by proxy.
> 
> I need to somehow tell the browser to skip waiting for this connection 
> and to continue loading the rest of the page.
> 
> By disabling javascript, the page draws fine, so I suspect that the 
> problem is within the javascript area (maybe due to a lack of timeout, 
> or due to error from the proxy being ignored).

How frozen is the browser ? Is the entire browser frozen or is only the
display of the given web page frozen ?

Cheers,

Mike