Firefox become unresponsive

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. do a google search
2. highlight terms on a search results page using SearchWP highlight button
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Search terms are highlighted but Firefox becomes unresponsive almost to the
point of "Not responding" (occasionally it responds to a click after a long
delay so it is possible to switch off highlighting and regain control).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Vista HP

InfoLister report:
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Last updated: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:05:26 GMT

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3)
Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

*** Extensions (enabled: 49, disabled: 12; total: 61)
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Add to Search Bar 1.7 
All-in-One Gestures 0.19.1 
All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.6 
AutoCopy 0.8 
BetterCache 1.21 [disabled]
Bookmark Backup 0.4.2 
British English Dictionary 1.19 
cmSiteNavigation Toolbar 0.8 [disabled]
ColorfulTabs 3.5 
Copy Plain Text 0.3.3 
CustomizeGoogle 0.75 
Dictionary Switcher 1.0 [disabled]
Dictionary Tooltip 1.3 
Dictionnaire HunSpell en Français 2.0 
Download Statusbar 0.9.6.3 
Facebook Toolbar 1.2.1 
Fasterfox 3.0.3 
FaviconizeTab 0.9.8.2 
Feed Sidebar 3.1 
Find All 1.1 
FireFTP 1.0.2 [disabled]
FlashGot 1.1.2 
Google Results Walker 1.0.1 
GooglePreview 3.14 
How-To Video Sidebar 1.0 [disabled]
Hyperwords(tm) 5.0.2 
IdentFavIcon 0.1.9a 
IE View Lite 1.3.3 
InfoLister 0.10 
Java Console 6.0.05 
Java Console 6.0.03 
Java Console 6.0.07 
Link Alert 0.8.2.1 
LinkedIn Companion for Firefox 3.1.2 [disabled]
LiveClick 0.3.0.0 [disabled]
Menu Editor 1.2.6 
MinimizeToTray 0.0.1.2006102615+ 
MultiSidebar 0.2.1 
Nightly Tester Tools 2.0.2 
Russian spell dictionary with IO support 0.2.1 
Searchbar Autosizer 1.4.1 
SearchBox Sync 1.2 
SearchWP 2.3.1 
Send/Clip to OneNote 1.5.1 
Session Manager 0.6.2.3 
Shopzilla 0.3 
Show Picture 1.5 
StumbleUpon 3.26 
Surf Canyon - Search Engine Assistant 1.1.3 [disabled]
Tab Effect 1.1 [disabled]
Tab Mix Plus 0.3.7.2 
Table2Clipboard 0.1.1 
Text Area Resizer and Mover 1.79 
Tooltip Enhancer 0.4.3 
Tweak Network 1.3 [disabled]
Update Notifier 0.1.5.4 
Update Scanner 2.2.3 
Web Developer 1.1.6 [disabled]
Web Search Pro 2.7.4.2 [disabled]
Zotero 1.0.7 

*** Themes (2)
Default [selected]
Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) 

*** Plugins
2007 Microsoft Office system
Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U7
Microsoft® Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin
Mozilla Default Plug-in
QuickTime Plug-in 7.2
Shockwave Flash
Windows Genuine Advantage

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I think there may be a compatibility problem with google results walker or
another extension but I have not tested. It used to work fine.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by veremia@gmail.com on 16 Oct 2008 at 2:10

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Please nail down the specific extension that is incompatible.

Original comment by legege on 16 Oct 2008 at 10:07

• Changed state: Invalid

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I've not tested this with the new version of SearchWP but I've seen this 
behavior
several times in Firefox 2.x. It was not related to incompatible extensions. 
It's
easy to reproduce:
-use Google to find a heavy book with a long title of which you know that it's
present in Project Gutemberg
-open the found book as full text in firefox
-SearchWP instantly starts highlighting all words of the title thoughout the 
entire book
-while SearchWP is busy doing this, firefox is totally non responsive

For me the simple solution of learning to check if highlighting was off before
opening large documents worked. I actually hardly use highlighting any more.

Original comment by gjbwende...@telfort.nl on 4 Jan 2009 at 12:15

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Yes, this is a known issue.

Original comment by legege on 6 Jan 2009 at 2:27