During the past few months, I've been bit by sudden total freezes while using Epiphany & Konqueror to browse Internet sites. The only way out is to hit the reset button: eg Ctl-Alt-F2 doesn't work.
At first, I believed it was a bug in Epiphany, which is good to use, but not well-supported as KDE & Firefox. However yesterday, it happened in similar circumstances with Konqueror, which uses quite different libraries & rendering. It seems to happen when the browser is downloading images, esp adverts, & I simultaneously use the middle mouse button to click or scroll. I may have several news stories downloading in different tabs & I middle-click on a link to open another tab or scroll down a list & one of the other tabs is still downloading extra images. This is the only situation in which it happens. There are Forum threads covering other situations, which don't apply to me, & the only thread which is similar is http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-521365-highlight-random+freeze.html which does not offer any helpful advice. There are no bugs answering to 'Epiphany freeze' or 'Konqueror freeze'. I'm using Kernel 2.6.18-gentoo, KDE 3.5.6 , Epiphany 2.16.3 & Xorg-x11 7.1 . Otherwise, my system is very stable & problem-free. Has anyone else run into this bizarre phenomenon ? Does anyone have useful suggestions ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
