Unity

Firefox Hangs temporarily/permanently when an image is dragged

Bug #927156 reported by Vibhav Pant
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This bug affects 3 people
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Unity
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unity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Whenever I drag an image from its place to any random space. Firefox hangs for some time. Also , sometimes the whole session freezes and I have to rebbot the system by Sysrq.

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Timothy Arceri (t-fridey) wrote :

Confirmed in Firefox 10.0.1, Ubuntu 11.10

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Confirmed
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Timothy Arceri (t-fridey) wrote :

Actually this seems to be a Unity thing. If I keep the mouse held down the Unity bar eventually comes up after it stops hanging.
Can you Confirm the same behavior?
What version of Firefox and Ubuntu are you running?

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

that's really not simple a papercut.

affects: firefox (Ubuntu) → unity (Ubuntu)
affects: hundredpapercuts → ubuntu
no longer affects: ubuntu
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 772445, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

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