472969 - Drag'n'Drop of selected Text freezes X-Server

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ansgar.chmiel+bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008123017 GranParadiso/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008123017 GranParadiso/3.0.5

When selecting some lines of text and trying to drag and drop it, the mouse-cursor (with moved selection attached) hangs up and X-Server freezes in.

I'm using KDE4 with Composition enabled!

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Text (seems to happen more often when more lines of Text are selected)
2. Drag Selection somewhere else (Selection follows Mouse _very_ slowly)
3. Drop it somewhere else on the page
Actual Results:  
Depends. Sometimes selection goes back to where it came from, but _ultra-slow_, but othertimes X-Servers freezes for some minutes.

Expected Results:  
Selection should at least move faster. Best thing to happen would be no animation of text moving back at all, I think.

Bug seems to be linux only but Distro-independent.It seems to happen under Kubuntu as well as Arch-Linux.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.