firefox 2.10 freezing gutsy
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
There have been lots of problems ever since I upgraded to Gutsy, but since installing the 2.0.0.10 version things have gotten significantly worse. I'd be glad to provide some diagnostic information, but I don't know where to look, and I haven't been able to detect the patterns that are triggering the problem. I suspect it's involved with switching from one window to another, since focus problems started with the Gutsy upgrade. The current form is a hard freeze of all of the Firefox windows. None of them can update, but other applications can be run without apparent problems. I'm not sure if the problem is with Firefox per se, or with the underlying windowing system, because usually Firefox is the only application with multiple windows at the time of the crashes, and I'm pretty well convinced the problem involves lost focus in the process of changing windows--but I don't know how to pin it more concretely.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 1 16:14:40 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: firefox 2.0.0.10+
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux shanen-WA70L 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Just clicked on a link to open a new window from Firefox, and again got a crash, but the nastier one--the white screen of death. From that state there's nothing to be done but cut the power and reboot.
I went ahead and switched back to the restricted driver after that crash, and I've rebooted again so it has effect, so I'll start watching and waiting for the next time. So far I haven't been able to link it to any particular website or activity, but I'm wondering if it could be a problem with the plugins? Something triggering them in a background window?