David H. Durgee wrote:
David H. Durgee wrote:
I am seeing some sort of a strange "freeze" in SM 2.29 and am wondering
if I am the only one and what can be done about it. This impacts both
the browser window and the mail/news window on my system and seems to
happen after several hours of use.
I notice the "freeze" has occurred when, for example, I click on a
browser tab and although the window title changes to reflect the new tab
there is no change in the window content displayed! I see similar
behavior at this point in the mail/news window in that clicking on a
group or folder changes the window title but not the window content
displayed.
This is definitely a SM problem, as I can alt-tab or click on another
application and behavior is normal.
The only solution I have found thus far once the "freeze" manifests
itself is to alt-F4 close both mail/news and browser with save and
restart SM.
In the latest case I noticed something that suggests it might be a
problem updating the window contents, as when I restarted the browser
the content of the current tab displayed what the window title reflected
as opposed to what was being displayed when I closed the browser for the
restart.
In case this is system/build dependent, I am running Linux Mint 17
Qiana x64 here and my user agent string is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
SeaMonkey/2.29
I am still seeing this "freeze" with 2.29.1 here. I am a bit surprised
that no one else is seeing this problem. It is not frequent, but it is
very annoying when it does occur.
Is there anything I can do to obtain further diagnostics about this
issue? As noted in the original report, it is as if the windows
displaying SM are no longer being updated except for the window titles.
I can click on a slider in the news groups and drag it and then a
click on a folder shows another folder name in the title. I can drag
the slider back to its original position and click on the highlighted
folder and get the proper title on the window, so it appears that the
drag and clicks are effective but the results are not displayed. I
likewise can click on tabs in the browser window and the window title
will change to reflect this, but the contents of the tab at the point of
the freeze remains displayed.
I have seen two more of these "freeze"s in the past few days and it is
getting quite annoying. Given that I am able to close down cleanly and
restart SeaMonkey I am wondering if that is all I can do.
Is there a keyboard shortcut or menu entry that would enable me to
trigger a crash dump on demand? Is it possible that the error console
might show something when such a "freeze" occurs, or is it most likely
that the display of the error console would also be frozen? I guess I
can open the error console and see, but my suspicion is it will be
"frozen" as well.
I am puzzled that I appear to be the only one seeing this, as nobody
else has posted about seeing this problem, but that does not reduce the
annoyance of the problem. Any suggestions?
Dave
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