289073 - Mouse selection followed by changing tab causes temporary freeze until focus is changed

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Luke Diamand]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0.2

If I select some text using the mouse and then switch to a different tab, then
*some* of the time the UI freezes totally. If I alt-tab away from firefox to
some other X11 application, and then alt-tab back again, it carries on going as
though nothing had happened.

I've tried both Firefox 1.02 and the nightly build as of 5th April '05 (the
latter core dumped when I tried this rather than freezing).

The webpages involved don't seem to matter - I've even seen it with the
'about:config' page. But it is very intermittent - repeating with the same
combination of pages will often work fine.

Sometimes it's just a bit slow (takes a second or so to switch tabs) but this
isn't the same thing, AFAIK.

I'm running Debian 3.1 with kde3.3.2, xfree86 4.3.0.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a second tab
2. Go back to the first tab
3. Select some text with the mouse
4. Switch to the second tab (with the mouse).

Actual Results:  
UI froze until I alt-tabbed to a different X11 application and then alt-tabbed
back again.

Expected Results:  
Should have carried on responding.

Comment 1

[Luke Diamand]

Something very similar seems to happen in the thunderbird in the mail-compose
window. However, you just need to select some text - you don't need to switch to
another tab (obviously). Again, switching focus seems to cure it; again it's
intermittent.

Comment 2

[Luke Diamand]

I strongly suspect this problem is caused by the X server (Xfree86 4.0.3). I've
not seen it on other servers; I've switched to Xorg 6.8.2 and so far it's been fine.

Let's see what happens over the next few days.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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