Re: [gentoo-user] Can't kill Firefox!

[Sebastian Beßler]

Am 22.07.2011 16:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon:

> It may look like KDE is the likely culprit based on just the
> information you provide, but I would be more inclined to look at
> browser plugins first, concentrating on those with both Firefox and
> Chromium versions from the same developer team.

I have zero browser plugins installed. So that is not the culprit. And
why should plugins lock up X when used under KDE but not under XFCE?
The problem that X freezes with KDE4 is more likely with webbrowsers but
happend when using other programms too. But because of the fact that one
or more browsers are nearly always running it is hard to find a freeze
without a browser running.

> There could be a cornercase bug in KDE that only shows up on your
> specific combination, or maybe there is some edge KDE app you use that
> disagrees with violently with FF. Or maybe it's the video driver that
> doesn't actually do what it tells KDE it can do (remember the
> painfully slow nVidia drivers with early KDE4?)

I use the opensource drivers for ati-cards. So t is unlikely to be
driver related.

I use no edge KDE apps only amarok, yakuake, kate, konsole, dolphin,
ktorrent from time to time. All of them but dolphin is still in use
under xfce4 so I think I can rule them out too.

I know it could still be a truckload of other things, but as a fan of
Ockham's razor I still say that KDE4 is broken.

Greetings

Sebastian Beßler