From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 16:35:05 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 47D9F16A420; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:35:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pastinakel.tue.nl (pastinakel.tue.nl [131.155.2.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A18FA43D48; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:35:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pastinakel.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE32C14BB33; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:35:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from pastinakel.tue.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pastinakel.tue.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21304-09; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:35:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from umta.win.tue.nl (umta.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.100]) by pastinakel.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB1314BB12; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:35:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002 [131.155.71.72]) by umta.win.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 266A731401C; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:35:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 028C34124; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:35:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:35:01 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Anish Mistry Message-ID: <20060128163501.GA68709@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Stijn Hoop , Anish Mistry , Mark Kane , gnome@freebsd.org, Frank Staals , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Simon Barner References: <200601271218.00377.mistry.7@osu.edu> <43DA7946.6000100@mkproductions.org> <200601271850.21187.mistry.7@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200601271850.21187.mistry.7@osu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tue.nl X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:49:55 +0000 Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Mark Kane , Frank Staals , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Simon Barner 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: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:35:05 -0000 Thanks for this! I was trying to restore some sanity to this new browser -- it keeps hanging / crashing. Will try this ASAP. --Stijn On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:50:11PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > 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. > > > There doesn't seem to be any progress on diagnosing the problem. > > > 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=305970 > > > > 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. > I've just tried out the patch in the above bug report and it does seem > to fix the problem. There was a rejected hunk in the patch, but it > just looked like a comment so no functionality was actually missing. > This should probably be added to the firefox port. > > -- > Anish Mistry -- It's harder to read code than to write it. -- Joel Spolsky, http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html