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  1. Bug #220628
  2. Comment #82

Comment 82 for bug 220628

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 220628] Re: [MASTER] firefox-3.0b5 received an X Window System error: 'BadIDChoice'

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 05:44:44PM -0000, lessoffensive wrote:
> I patched libxcb with the proposed patch and have been testing it since
> last night. I haven't received any BadIDChoice errors, which in the
> scenario I've been in basically ensured that it would crash before all
> the tabs finished reloading after it crashed (I had about 140 tabs open
> in 2 windows). I patched it against 1.1.93 and it seems to be working
> well.
>
> This has been a serious problem for me and made firefox basically
> unusable in the fashion I typically use it in for the last 6 months; I
> hope this patch (or an improved one, if I find there to be problems with
> this one) makes it into the mainline asap. If it doesn't, I'll be
> running my own patched version of xcb because this problem is really
> very huge for me.
>

Can you please attach the patch you are currently using and provide
reference where you picked it from (e.g. mailing list message, etc.).

Thanks a lot for your work on this.

 - Alexander