Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:41:43 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GTK filedialog crashes Firefox/Thunderbird Message-ID: <1135CD60-4657-432F-92BB-7F33EF687E70@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070323210115.GA7721@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> References: <4603EC16.10909@gmx.net> <200703231344.09310.lists@jnielsen.net> <20070323210115.GA7721@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>
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On Mar 23, 2007, at 2:01 PM, cpghost wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:44:09PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: >> On Friday 23 March 2007 11:02:46 am Frank Staals wrote: >>> It seems that I'm having problems (again) with the GTK filedialog in >>> Firefox/Thunderbird. It happens when saving or opening a file in >>> Firefox >>> or thunderbird resulting in a crash. What to do: >>> >>> - Open Firefox >>> - Save a file, the save-file dialog comes up, Save or cancel it. >>> - Save a file, when the file dialog comes up, file dialog hangs and >>> after a second or something firefox crashes >> >> I'm seeing the same behavior. I searched around on the web a while >> ago and saw >> a report (on a firefox bug issue or mailinglist I think) from >> another FreeBSD >> user about this. He later followed up to his own post saying that >> the problem >> went away after he recompiled ALL of his ports. The thing that was >> interesting is that he only saw the bad behavior under xfce (what >> WM are you >> using, btw?). I'm running xfce 4.4.0 and have the problem, but I >> haven't >> gotten around to recompiling everything yet. I may or may not wait >> for the >> modularXorg stuff to be committed before I do so... > > I'm experiencing a similar problem with the GTK file save box. Under > fluxbox, the save box starts to grow and shrink horizontally by approx > 40% of its size twice per second or so. The only way out of this is to > kill and restart Firefox. I don't know if other GTK-based programs are > affected though. Another data point: I'm too in the midst of the giant > gettext upgrade tango, so this could be temporary, until everything is > finally upgraded. > > cpghost. > > -- > Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ What version are you guys running with what CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS? I was experiencing the same thing until 2.0.0.2 (filed a bug and Mozilla folks said they fixed it in this version). Now if I can only determine why the same happens when I try and add a file with azureus.. that's another ball of wax though.. -Garrett
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