Well .. I got even emacs -Q to freeze with that particular website.

- emacs -Q
- M-x eww http://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs

If someone else can confirm this too, I will file a bug report.


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Kaushal Modi

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed that eww opens web pages fine in emacs -Q.
>
> But when using my emacs config, my emacs gets bogged down when I try to
> open certain web pages in eww. A recent example is
> http://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/.
>
> By "bogged down", I mean that once I do M-x eww and yank that link, whole
> emacs would freeze and I would need to repeatedly hit C-g to abort whatever
> was going on in the background. A few times, I had to resort to kill -9
> from the terminal. This issue does not happen in emacs -Q. And also this
> issue is not something recent.. I have seen this to happen on/off only for
> certain web pages, ever since I started using eww (which is awesome!).
>
> Before I start to gradually comment out my emacs init to debug this, I was
> curious if anyone else saw this too and found any of the common minor mode
> packages to be the culprit.
>
> I am using the latest emacs from trunk.
>
> ​Thank you.
> ​
>
> --
> Kaushal Modi
>