273442 - Firefox hangs often when running it on KDE

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Logan Rathbone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

This is a bit of a tricky bug to report, because... well, it's very strange. 
Whenever I run Firefox (1.0, but it was present in earlier versions too) under
KDE (3.3.1, haven't tested earlier versions) the browser hangs at unpredictable
times.  The browser does not crash though; the hang only lasts a good five
seconds or so.

It is extremely annoying though.  The complete UI becomes unresponsive, and all
Firefox windows, not just the one I have open, freeze.  Other applications
continue to behave normally.

Under other window managers such as Fluxbox and other desktops such as GNOME, I
never have this problem.  Firefox runs perfectly.  But under KDE, it happens
quite often.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Firefox 1.0 on KDE 3.3.x (probably any 3.x though) and just start using
it as you normally would.
2. Keep using it until Firefox hangs
3. Wait for the browser to hang.  When it does, wait it out and it will
eventually go back to normal.

Actual Results:  
browser hangs at unpredictable times

Expected Results:  
browser should behave normally under any desktop and not hang

Using Arch Linux (current) with Firefox 1.0 downloaded from mozilla.org and
vanilla KDE 3.3 as packed by the Arch Linux maintainers

Comment 1

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hello, 
 
I can reproduce this behaviour under Debian Sarge with KDE 4:3.3.2-1 and  
 
somehost:~# dpkg -l | grep mozilla-firefox 
ii  mozilla-firefox                              1.0.1-2                                      
lightweight web browser based on Mozilla 
ii  mozilla-firefox-gnome-support                1.0.1-2                                      
Support for Gnome in Mozilla Firefox 
ii  mozilla-firefox-locale-de                    1.0.1-1                                      
Mozilla Firefox German Language/Region Package 
 
Today it seems a new mozilla-firefox update came from Debian. I also had this 
with later versions of Mozilla Firefox. I also had it with later versions of 
Mozilla Firefox. Today a new update came in: 
 
someotherhost:~# dpkg -l | grep mozilla-firefox 
ii  mozilla-firefox                 1.0.4-2                         lightweight 
web browser based on Mozilla 
ii  mozilla-firefox-gnome-support   1.0.4-2                         Support for 
Gnome in Mozilla Firefox 
ii  mozilla-firefox-locale-de-de    1.0.3lang20050420-1             Mozilla 
Firefox German language/region package 
 
I will observe how it goes with that version. 
 
Probabably this is related to Debian bug #279169. 
 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279169 
 
Regards, 
Martin Steigerwald - team(ix) GmbH 

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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