Ubuntu
firefox-3.5 package

  1. Bug #401823
  2. Comment #88

Comment 88 for bug 401823

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lessoffensive (lessoffensive) wrote : Re: (firefox:24993): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead - overeager XID caching

This has been a huge problem for me for at least the last 6 months, if not the last year. The only patch I've seen come out that addresses it is http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=144074 from the Gnome bug here https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581526 . I've patched gtk with this patch (which conflicts with the xid collision error hiding patch, which I removed) and am about to test this on my own system from my PPA.

I'm all for a better solution to the XID problem and this certainly doesn't seem to be a permanent fix (why can the X server even give out conflicting XIDs at all?), but I really like having firefox run without crashing a few times a day (even though I have 4-5 windows and typically between 140-180 tabs open, total).

Anyone who wants to test out this patched gtk can get it off my PPA here:
https://launchpad.net/~lessoffensive/+archive/lessoffensive/