Bug#790250: iceweasel: first search from about:home hangs (goes to lunch)

[Jack Ryan]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 31.7.0esr-1~deb8u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When "about:home" is the default home page, the first search after
launching always goes to lunch.  The timer wheel spins forever.  If
another tab is opened, then that search works instantly, but only if
another search was already attempted.

I tried not searching in the first tab to appear after launch, and go
straight to a 2nd tab with about:home and search from there.  But that
also hangs, at which point the first tab works.  So it's not a problem
with the first tab, but rather the first /attempt/ that is made.

This is quite annoying.  It started occuring a few months before
Jessie was released, and still happens after upgrading from wheezy to
jessie.

-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

Name: Gish It!
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/gish-it.ffext at gishpuppy.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: HTTPS-Everywhere
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/https-everywhere at eff.org
Status: enabled

Name: It's All Text!
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/itsalltext at docwhat.gerf.org
Status: enabled

Name: Live HTTP headers
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{8f8fe09b-0bd3-4470-bc1b-8cad42b8203a}
Status: enabled

Name: Night Mode Page Dim
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/ilaita.night-mode-page-dim at jetpack.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: NoScript
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Nuke Anything Enhanced
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{1ced4832-f06e-413f-aa14-9eb63ad40ace}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Random Agent Spoofer
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/jid1-AVgCeF1zoVzMjA at jetpack.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: StopSOPA
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/jid0-A2AGBH3veL3ZV6GOM159BnxtOjg at jetpack.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: UnMHT
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{f759ca51-3a91-4dd1-ae78-9db5eee9ebf0}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: User Agent Overrider
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/useragentoverrider at qixinglu.com.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: WebCott Boycotter
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/WebCott at BryanQuigley.com.xpi
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information
Name: Gnome Shell Integration
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
Package: gnome-shell
Status: enabled

Name: iTunes Application Detector
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
Package: rhythmbox-plugins
Status: enabled


-- Addons package information
ii  gnome-shell    3.14.4-1~deb amd64        graphical shell for the GNOME des
ii  iceweasel      31.7.0esr-1~ amd64        Web browser based on Firefox
ii  rhythmbox-plug 3.1-1        amd64        plugins for rhythmbox music playe

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.4+b1
ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.3
ii  libasound2                1.0.28-1
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-18
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.0-2.1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.8.18-0+deb8u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.102-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-2
ii  libffi6                   3.1-2+b2
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-3
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-3
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.3-3
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.17.2-1.1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.8-3
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
ii  libvpx1                   1.3.0-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.9-9
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn  fonts-mathjax          <none>
pn  fonts-oflb-asana-math  <none>
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.1-1
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-2.1
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.24.5-3
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.12.1+dfsg-19
pn  mozplugger             <none>

-- no debconf information