From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 20:00:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1667A16A420 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:00:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from mail.united-ware.com (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC9343D53 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:00:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.united-ware.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0RK8CdL014846 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:08:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) From: Anish Mistry To: Mark Kane Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:03:15 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200601271218.00377.mistry.7@osu.edu> <43DA7946.6000100@mkproductions.org> In-Reply-To: <43DA7946.6000100@mkproductions.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1695812.2ZtL40LGnS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601271503.25067.mistry.7@osu.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, MYFREEBSD3 autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1252/Thu Jan 26 06:03:25 2006 on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Frank Staals , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 1.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:00:36 -0000 --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--