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Bug 113212 - galeon freeze when scrolling (with xinerama)
galeon freeze when scrolling (with xinerama)
Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE
Product: galeon
Classification: Deprecated
Component: User interface
1.3.4
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: galeon-maint
Yanko Kaneti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-05-18 10:28 UTC by jpommier
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
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Description jpommier 2003-05-18 10:28:51 UTC
Since I got my dual-head display about a month ago, I experienced many
freezes of the galeon ui. I guess this is xinerama specific, as there is a
similar bug-report in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186251 (the freeze also
happens, but less frequently, with keyboard scrolling). I guess it is also
the same bug as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72196

It is very reproductible: it occurs on some specific web pages, at a
certain scrolling position. I do not have any other application which has
the same problems (mozilla, phoenix, konqueror..), so even if it is an X
bug (I am using xfree 4.2), galeon is the only application to trigger it.
Comment 1 dmoisset 2004-02-12 15:44:30 UTC
Hi. Could you please send some of the URLs that make galeon fail? That
way we can try to reproduce the bug and fix it.
Comment 2 jpommier 2004-02-15 10:42:14 UTC
Hello, this is not very easy as problematic pages may change with
time, but I found these 3 which consistently freeze my galeon (either
when loading the page, or when scrolling):

http://www.quarante-deux.org/recits/egan.html
http://www.nofrag.com
http://sourceforge.net/projects/barcr-reader/

Note that epiphany freezes on the same pages, while firebird and
mozilla  are not affected. The freeze does not consume any cpu:
(gdb) info thread
* 8 Thread 98311 (LWP 2002)  0x40b415f4 in __pthread_sigsuspend ()
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
  4 Thread 32771 (LWP 1996)  0x40b45446 in nanosleep () from
/lib/libpthread.so.0
  3 Thread 16386 (LWP 1989)  0x40d9f81a in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
  2 Thread 32769 (LWP 1988)  0x40d9f81a in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
  1 Thread 16384 (LWP 1984)  0x40da1de1 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
Comment 3 Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2004-06-03 21:52:34 UTC
This is unreproducable for me, I have used galeon and xinerama daily for a good
few months now, and it has never frozen on me. Is this still causing problems
with latest versions of galeon, gtk, and mozilla ?
Comment 4 jpommier 2004-06-06 12:39:34 UTC
yes, the bug is still here (galeon 1.3.14, mozilla 1.6, gtk 2.4.1) , but I found
a workaround which is to enable antialiasing in galeon (by installing the
recommended package "mozilla-xft" on my debian). With this package, the bug does
not appear anymore (and I have nicer fonts!)
Comment 5 Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2004-09-10 18:51:31 UTC
This must be a problem in mozilla, or its embedding component then, Galeon
itself doesn't care about whether the mozilla-xft package is installed.