FireFox sits on “Transferring data from…” or “Read…”

Question

I\'m building some functional tests for a web site using Selenium, and I\'m stuck on a bizarre browser issue where the page never seems to finish loading. The status bar re

Answer 1

Try disabling Firebug. This solved a similar problem for me.

Answer 2

Try the Live HTTP Headers extension. With this extension you can grab the request and response headers off the wire. You might also try starting Firefox in safe mode for testing. This will disable all installed extensions. Run firefox -h in a dos box to see the command line switch for safe mode.

Answer 3

This is a known bug in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383811

If you you think the bug is relevant to your situation consider voting it up in bugzilla.

Answer 4

Hate to answer my own question, but the problem went away on its own after developers started to strip out invalid markup, unclosed tables or TR's without tables are generally bad.

Answer 5

same prob, appears to be a bug. Some have said it's a 'security issue'. Did find a simple work-around. I haven't tried it, and most likely won't, cause I hate adding additional code for a single browser fix, but the approach looks good. See: http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=759308