Bug 250536

Version:           3.5 (using KDE 1.2) 
OS:                Linux

Here is my (reproducible) strange bug: 

I visit the french white pages www.pagesjaunes.fr/pagesblanches/ and enter a request, say meyer in paris. The result page causes an eternal SIGALRM seqence in X and the system freezes entirely. On reboot, the firefox profile is (in most cases) unusuable. Backup it before playing!


firefox 3.0.16 Mozilla/5.0 (en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
  with  noscript installed (and I block the site in question), so the bug is 
  neither java, nor javascript, nor flash related.

When I visit the same page with konqueror, there is no crash. 

I conclude that firefox kills X - which should not be possible ...



I am sorry for the very incomplete report, feel free to ask me all details you want (but, sorry guys, I am not admin, so "install this or that" may be difficult).

thanks, Bernhard

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Mandriva 2009 edition, 

use firefox firefox 3.0.16 Mozilla/5.0 (en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

under KDE 3.5 to visit  www.pagesjaunes.fr/pagesblanches/

enter a name you wish and a french city you wish, click "trouver" (find) and the system freezes.

Actual Results:  
X freezes. Computer remains accessible by SSH, X seams to send millions of SIGALRM that nobody listens to.

On reboot you better have a backup of your .mozilla folder, because the profile is (often) lost (well, disfunctional) by the crash.

Expected Results:  
either it should work or a bug in firefox should cause X to terminate firefox.