Both mozilla-1.7.8 tan firefox-1.0.4 hung on certain pages like www.yamaha.com. After I emerged "app-misc/mime-types-2" these sites seem to work like a charm. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.mv /etc/mime-types /etc/mime-types.bak 2.start firefox 3.go to www.yamaha.com Actual Results: Browser did not respond after loading some of the page. Expected Results: Browser should keep responding. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12.1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12.1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 4 2005, 05:21:55)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -fexpensive-optimizations -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -fexpensive-optimizations -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cpudetection crypt cups curl dga directfb dts dvb dvd dvdread eds emboss encode evo fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 irda irmc java joystick jpeg ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad matrox mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mythtv ncurses objc odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline real rtc scanner sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Workaround was to unmerge gnome-vfs.