Autoscroll in Firefox can freeze these at once: Firefox, keyboard, mouse, and possibly other things
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Release information:
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04 (beta 2)
Package Version:
firefox:
Installed: 3.6.3+nobinonly
Candidate: 3.6.3+nobinonly
Version table:
*** 3.6.3+nobinonly
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
flash-nonfree is installed; however, the pages which were freezing did not have Flash applications on them.
What I expected to happen:
Variable-Speed scrolling through a web page, speed depending on the distance of the cursor from the "mark" that's left after middle-clicking on the page.
What happened instead:
Slow scrolling through a web page; browser frozen; mouse clicking (despite being able to move the cursor around) and keyboard being unresponsive throughout the operating system... until the browser reaches the top or the bottom of the page, depending on which side I was scrolling to.
Comment:
I'm sorry to say that I can't seem to reproduce this bug on purpose; however it has happened on at least 3 occasions today alone (the day on which I installed the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Linx beta 2).
Bug seems to be similar or same to Bug #470671; however, this is a different version of Ubuntu and Firefox altogether, so I saw fit to file it despite it.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 18 23:47:02 2010
FirefoxPackages:
firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly
firefox-
firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly
abroswer N/A
abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
I have this problem as well. On my 32-bit laptop, and my 64-bit desktop. For at least the last 3 versions of Ubuntu.