Searching a program freezes when Empathy is online with a Facebook account

[Li Chong]

In 12.04 -Gnome 3.4 -I used Empathy with my facebook account, and messages in the tray. In 12.10, the system to config the account of facebook has changed -it's not anymore a Jabber account -and from then, when i was on line and go to search for an application, the entire system freezes for 5 or 10 seconds. It's really anoying. This not happend when i'm offline but... the message tray it's a very good feature and it's depressive keep using 12.04. Please, research.

[Li Chong (l-chong-v)]

Oh, and this also happend in Ubuntu 13.04

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[aaron skarlupka (skarlupkaa)]

I am running Ubuntu 13.04 with the Gnome 3 shell. I encounter the same issue. Gateway NV50A16u laptop. AMD Phenom II X2 N660 processor. ATI Mobility Radeon HD41520 Graphics. If I disable empathy I have no issues running Ubuntu 13.04 with Gnome. Facebook is the only account linked to Gnome. Problem exits in that the activity search, searches Facebook contacts and seems to be the cause of the system lag in my opinion. Creating a way to disable searching Facebook contacts from activity search while leaving empathy active might fix this behavior.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) reached end-of-life on May 16, 2014.
And Ubuntu 13.04 (raring) reached end-of-life on January 27, 2014.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-shell (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]