From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 10:33:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D24616A41F for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:33:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@mcdermottroe.com) Received: from tallyho.bytemark.co.uk (tallyho.bytemark.co.uk [80.68.81.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A3A43D75 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:33:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@mcdermottroe.com) Received: from edgespace.vm.bytemark.co.uk ([80.68.90.21]) by tallyho.bytemark.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F1hxi-0002Ga-0p; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:33:14 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=platinum.office.edgespace.net) by edgespace.vm.bytemark.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1F1iBG-0006d0-00; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:47:14 +0000 From: Conor McDermottroe To: jinzougen@jinzougen.org In-Reply-To: <43D65FA4.2000405@jinzougen.org> References: <43D65FA4.2000405@jinzougen.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:33:07 +0000 Message-Id: <1138185187.26672.11.camel@platinum.office.edgespace.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www/firefox bug amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:33:29 -0000 On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 11:11 -0600, Brandon Beamer wrote: > I installed www/firefox from ports. Everything went ok, firefox even ran > fine for a few hours. After a little browsing, firefox exhibited periods > of non-responsiveness. Now, every time I open firefox, the window comes > up but it locks up and never draws anything into the main content area. > Recompiling/reinstalling does not help. I recently installed FreeBSD 6 > on an amd64 computer so maybe it's a 64-bit thing. I can reproduce the > problem simply by running firedox. I've seen the same thing for as long as I've had Firefox on FreeBSD/amd64 (about 1 year, on both 5.x and 6.x). >From my cursory investigations I have found that the following appears to be true: 1) This problem appears to be related to the content being rendered as some sites will /always/ hang the browser. I suspect that it has something to do with content other than HTML/JPEG/PNG/GIF. I can reliably hang the browser by clicking on a link to a PDF and the sites that cause hangs tend to be "rich" in JavaScript/Flash/Streaming media. The next time I find a website that does it, I'll post a followup with the URL. 2) This problem can also be reproduced in epiphany, so odds are it's in the common code between the two browsers. Hope this helps shed more light on the problem. I haven't had the time to dig further. -C