Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:03:15 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> Cc: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 1.5 Message-ID: <200601271503.25067.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <43DA7946.6000100@mkproductions.org> References: <a8b370910601262206p2dea460fj87b097fadaa3372b@mail.gmail.com> <200601271218.00377.mistry.7@osu.edu> <43DA7946.6000100@mkproductions.org>
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--nextPart1695812.2ZtL40LGnS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 27 January 2006 14:49, Mark Kane wrote: > Anish Mistry wrote: > > On Friday 27 January 2006 04:18, Frank Staals wrote: > >> Hmm I got a question regarding to Fx 1.5. Has anyone else > >> noticed a tremendous slowdown when using 1.5 ? I especially mean > >> when the popup-window opens to ask what you want to do with a > >> download ( save it or open it ) then Fx hangs for about 15 > >> seconds ( while the 'ok' button is not clickable ) then It > >> continues again. Also Firefox crashed when I tried using an > >> upload function ( to attach a file to a post in a forum ). > >> > >> Anyone else had problems with this ? ( Using Xfce4.2.3.1 with > >> gtk2.8.9 here ) > > > > This has also been reported by other people including myself.=20 > > There doesn't seem to be any progress on diagnosing the problem.=20 > > The only thing I've been able to notice is that if I run truss on > > the firefox process during it's slowdown/hang it shows that > > firefox is repeatedly calling the kse_release system call. > > I have the same issues since updating to FF 1.5. For me, it freezes > up for 2-3-5 minutes the first time that one of those > "popup-windows" comes up after a clean Firefox start. After the > first one that comes up, subsequent ones are fine. > > I opened a bug with the Mozilla people, but it got closed and > marked as a duplicate of this bug (which they say has been fixed in > their 1.8 CVS): > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D305970 > > I have not yet tried to build the CVS, but it is a very annoying > bug indeed since other things seem to crash 1.5 like the mplayer > plugin and then I have to restart FF...therefore experiencing the > problem again. Have you tried to just apply the patch in the bug report and recompile=20 1.5? If that fixes it send a FreeBSD PR and CC the firefox=20 maintainer so they can add the patch to the port in the mean time. =20 I've started compiling, but your AMD64 system is a lot faster that my=20 old Athlon. :) =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart1695812.2ZtL40LGnS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD2nyNxqA5ziudZT0RApfIAJwPuYOJC92fACKf8PARi+GWSiyRBwCgv2BZ oFgRl/8CC2egdTXjXy0DJsM= =Le67 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1695812.2ZtL40LGnS--
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