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Firefox hangs when viewing source code of some pages

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I've been suffering from this issue for quite some time now - maybe more than a year. When I view the source code of some big pages, firefox hangs. It doesn't crash. If I leave it there for about 60seconds it will return to normal, but this is extremely annoying when developing. The last time I experienced the hang I forced it to crash in order to get a crash report: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/6e2dac84-90e1-4a8f-8a31-26df12150331

Is this from any help? Can you determine what could be wrong? Is there any way to debug this? Like installing a debugger or something?

I've been getting this on the normal FF and in the Firefox Developer Edition. With a clean profile, in save mode with no extensions whatsoever etc.

Any ideas what I could do are appreciated!

I've been suffering from this issue for quite some time now - maybe more than a year. When I view the source code of some big pages, firefox hangs. It doesn't crash. If I leave it there for about 60seconds it will return to normal, but this is extremely annoying when developing. The last time I experienced the hang I forced it to crash in order to get a crash report: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/6e2dac84-90e1-4a8f-8a31-26df12150331 Is this from any help? Can you determine what could be wrong? Is there any way to debug this? Like installing a debugger or something? I've been getting this on the normal FF and in the Firefox Developer Edition. With a clean profile, in save mode with no extensions whatsoever etc. Any ideas what I could do are appreciated!

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Hi compojoom, Thank you for your question, I understand that in the Firefox for Developers Edition is crashing when you view a page source of some websites. I understand that eventually it will loads, but the provided crash report is an instance for when it did not complete.

In order to further investigate, providing a link example to where this is happening in a bugzilla.mozilla.org bug would be the next steps since this version of Firefox is still in development. The crash does not reveal alot of information, however there are add ons listed in the crash report, did it crash in Safe mode?