That's a pretty defeatist way of looking at it :P. FIrefox seems to work just fine on every other X running desktop, including a fellow Gentoo'er friend of mind; Not to mention that simply stop using the application cos X has a bug is, well, far out.
I'll go ahead with the mass recompile, I guess. (PS. Opera 8.5 is waaay laggy for some reason and I like my extensions) On 08/11/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phill MV schreef: > > Every now and then, usually while doing something related to firefox > > ( mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2) but it's also happened when someone sent > > me a file over MSN in gaim (gaim-1.5.0), my copy of xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 > > will lock up and refuse all interaction. > > > > All windows stop responding; xmms keeps playing; keyboard locks up > > and the mouse, although free to wiggle around won't cross from one > > screen to another. Logging in from another machine over SSH, top > > reveals that X is occupying 90-something% of the CPU; killing > > individual applications like firefox or xmms doesn't do anything but > > killing X gives me back a working, functional login screen. > > > > This is, as you might imagine, amazingly annoying. For whatever > > reason, it'll happen when I click specific links in Firefox (i.e. my > > professor's labs & assignments link) <snip> > > Before going further, let me say that I agree that X is becoming a real > annoyance. I'm at this very moment upgrading to the unstable version > (6.8.2-r6, not the masked pre-7.0 versions; I'm not that desperate :-) ) > to see if it helps. > > That said, this would seem to be an interaction between 'problems with > X' and 'problems with Firefox' (we've had discussions of the increasing > memory usage of Firefox lately-- it may well be that both these sets of > issues are manageable on their own, but together, Firefox becomes the > straw that breaks the back of X. > > So try using another web browser for a while. I myself like Galeon for > my alternate browser, but there's Epiphany, Dillo, Konqueror (of > course), kazehakase, w3m, amaya, skipstone, and of course the text-based > browsers such as links, lynx and so on. I would avoid Mozilla, because > it's about the only thing that could possibly be yet more bloated than > Firefox is becoming. > > In any case, see if the problem persists when using another browser; if > it doesn't, then at least you can do your work, if it does, perhaps > we'll get more information as to what is going wrong. > > Hope this helps, > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
