Bug#357904: epiphany-browser: strange hangs all the time

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 20 mars 2006 à 07:17 +0100, Christian von Kietzell a écrit :
> ever since Epiphany was built using xulrunner it behaved strangely for me.
> Sometimes it works seemingly normal, but this morning it happened again. The
> symptoms are as follows:
> 
> * clicking on links seems to load them but (according to the progress bar) at
>   around 80% done it stops indefinitely without displaying anything
> * the close buttons on tabs are clickable but have no effect
> * text entry fields in forms don't work, no cursor appears when clicking them
>   (the one for searching on bugs.debian.org for example ;-) )
> * the Extensions activation dialogue (Tools->Extensions) appears but you can't
>   do anything in it or even close it
> * Epiphany itself is closeable though and doesn't appear to be stuck or
>   something
> * strangely you can load websites in the first tab entering their URL though and
>   they will work
> * on dict.leo.org the cursor in the entry field is stuck at the beginning so
>   that characters get inserted at the beginning all the time and I have to enter
>   words backwards (if this wasn't a bit annoying it would actually be funny)
> 
> Hope you can help, as Epiphany is my preferred browser and using Firefox or
> Mozilla just isn't as comfortable.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Chris
> 
> P.S. I'd be glad to help debug this. Doesn't look like anyone else has these
> problems.

Indeed, it doesn't look easily reproducible. First of all, are you using
any particular plugins?

The symptoms you describe could be caused by a hanging thread. Getting
several backtraces of all threads when this behaviour occurs and seeing
which threads don't act at all would be a way to detect where this is
happening.
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