On Tuesday 06 March 2007 21:22, Philip Webb wrote: > 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 ?
The only time I had suffered similar symptoms to what you are describing (but with different applications) was when I had a bad memory problem. No sooner had I changed the memory module, the freezes were gone. Memtest86 did not show anything and it was only through trial and error that I found the faulty module. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick
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