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Dragging a link from firefox and dropping it anywhere makes unity freeze for a few seconds

Bug #880474 reported by Owais Lone on 2011-10-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #772445: Dragging image from firefox/chrome to dock causes lagg/freeze. Edit Remove

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Dragging a link from firefox always makes unity freeze for a few seconds. It becomes responsive again automatically after a while ~2-6secs.

Graphics Card
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c)

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Owais Lone (loneowais) on 2011-10-23

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2011-10-24:

sounds similar to bug 772445

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Owais Lone (loneowais) wrote on 2011-10-25:

@omer yes, quite similar but this bug happens when dragging a hyperlink. Also, it freezes as soon as the drag starts not when the the cursor moves to launcher.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-10-25:

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