Summary: | Firefox 1.5 (1.5.0.4, stable) periodically "hiccups" to blank tab, then redraws | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Dave Lindquist <junk> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla> |
Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
Severity: | major | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2006.0 | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: | Output from strace during problem |
Description
Dave Lindquist
2006-06-05 09:11:18 UTC
Created attachment 88489 [details]
Output from strace during problem
This is the output of strace during a session in which the problem occurred. The session involved a) browsing to slashdot, b) opening ~5-8 tabs, and c) browsing through pages in those tabs, reading articles until it occurred, then d) closing Firefox.
strace did not seem to output *anything* at the point at which the problem actually occurred.
Did you follow the directions to start with a clean profile after upgrading from 1.0.x branch to 1.5.x branch of firefox? If not please move ~/.mozilla out of the way and restart your case, I am unable to duplicate the problem. I don't remember any instructions regarding starting with a clean profile (at least not in the emerge output). However, I've just tested again by: 1) rm -Rf ~/.mozilla 2) Uninstalling all packages that provide plugins to firefox (as determined by about:plugins), except for the Java plugin and the default firefox-provided SVG plugin. The problem still occurs, just as nasty as ever... Anything else I can try? please remove that java plugin and test. that is also a common problem right now as API has changed and java plugins are not new enough to be used as stable. I removed the Java plugin (confirmed by about:plugins), and see no difference -- the problem stil occurs. Just for completeness, I also toasted the SVG plugin (I now have no plugins at all) -- same behavior. -- SOLUTION FOUND -- It appears that the solution to this problem is to: unmerge gtk-engines-qt The problem no longer seems to occur, and normal rendering is many times faster. I will be verifying with all plugins / extensions reinstalled, too, but for now it appears to be fixed. I've verified with extensions and plugins back in -- the solution is definitely to unmerge gtk-engines-qt. I've had Firefox occasionally lock up, in that it no longer draws windows. However, a few seconds, and it's come good again. I too have gtk-engines-qt installed. For the moment, I don't have a solution to the problem, but I can confirm the issue does appear to exist. The same problem does not crop up on my laptop, which lacks gtk-engines-qt. Is it reproducible in -bin? Closing till someone can reproduce. |