FS#1912 - firefox 1.0 hangs
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Opened by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Saturday, 18 December 2004, 18:41 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Sunday, 19 December 2004, 21:06 GMT
Opened by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Saturday, 18 December 2004, 18:41 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Sunday, 19 December 2004, 21:06 GMT
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So as not to repeat too much, this forum post
(http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=8659) details my
issue.
Basically firefox hangs on odd pages (www.citibank.com) which are seemingly just normal html (grabbed a few with wget, nothing extraordianry). Recompiling from source, while checking out from CVS fixed it.... |
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Closed by Dale Blount (dale)
Tuesday, 03 May 2005, 04:00 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: not an Arch bug at least...
Tuesday, 03 May 2005, 04:00 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: not an Arch bug at least...
This did not fix the issues.
It is entirely possible that I have something else from testing which firefox is using....
In addition, looking at the default .mozconfig from abs, freetype is disabled and Xft is used for font lookups... I should hope changes in freetype wouldn't affect firefox then.
Sometimes under WMI, firefox hard-locks my machine entierly...
I noticed that citibank has flash on their site and I'm sure many of the other sites you have problems with have flash or java embeded in their pages. Both the flash and java plugin try to grab the OSS device when they're started. If you have a sound card like the one in my laptop, it will block until my sound card is free. This makes firefox look like it's hung, but if you stop your music, firefox gets going again.
I don't know about the hard locks though.
In addition, I must point out that enabling the bytecode interpreter via a patch is not needed. See my font how-to in the wiki. The bytecode interpreter can be turned on and off with a setting....
So it's half fixed, but gnome-vfs causes some issues still... I have to make sure not to grab it as a dependancy
I've discovered that it has something to do with libgnome - it libgnome is installed, all the dialogs will hang the system... so I just make it a point to keep libgnome uninstalled and it works fine... in the near future I may do a full reinstall, and we'll see if something changes then
Please try adding a new user to your system with a clean homedir and see if it works for you.
horray, I can now install libgnome if it's needed