F11: Firefox v3.5.2-2 causes daily system lockouts.
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sun Sep 6 21:11:29 UTC 2009
On 09-09-06 13:20:31, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803
> Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11 Firefox/3.5.2
>
> After extensive testing with the divide & conquer
> method, I have discovered that FireFox is causing
> all sorts of hissy-fits, the worst, being a complete
> system lockout, once per day, requiring a hard-reboot.
> This is cause during inactivity, and no, it is NOT the
> Gnome screen-saver. As long as FF is NOT running,
> I used my system for 1 week, gnome screen-saver w/
> random - not a single lockout, no problems.
>
> The second worse part about FF is the rendering of
> the graphics are horrible - extra black lines vertically,
> horizontally, both on forums with tables, and some
> weird characters every now and then.
I also see font rendering artifacts, mostly in Firefox, but in other
apps as well. I blame the video driver, possibly the EXA acceleration,
though I haven't tried XAA yet (per `man radeon`). I have an old ATI
Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] rev 0. It could be that your lockups
have the same cause.
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