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During the past few months, I've been bit by sudden total freezes |
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while using Epiphany & Konqueror to browse Internet sites. |
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The only way out is to hit the reset button: eg Ctl-Alt-F2 doesn't work. |
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At first, I believed it was a bug in Epiphany, which is good to use, |
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but not well-supported as KDE & Firefox. However yesterday, |
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it happened in similar circumstances with Konqueror, |
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which uses quite different libraries & rendering. |
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It seems to happen when the browser is downloading images, esp adverts, |
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& I simultaneously use the middle mouse button to click or scroll. |
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I may have several news stories downloading in different tabs |
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& I middle-click on a link to open another tab or scroll down a list |
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& one of the other tabs is still downloading extra images. |
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This is the only situation in which it happens. |
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There are Forum threads covering other situations, which don't apply to me, |
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& the only thread which is similar is |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-521365-highlight-random+freeze.html |
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which does not offer any helpful advice. |
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There are no bugs answering to 'Epiphany freeze' or 'Konqueror freeze'. |
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I'm using Kernel 2.6.18-gentoo, KDE 3.5.6 , Epiphany 2.16.3 & Xorg-x11 7.1 . |
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Otherwise, my system is very stable & problem-free. |
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Has anyone else run into this bizarre phenomenon ? |
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Does anyone have useful suggestions ? |
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