Bug#494058: epiphany-browser: Download window is broken

[Sam Morris]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 16:47 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 15:32 +0100, Sam Morris a écrit :
> > > In 2 months time, this bug never occurred once to me. Do you have any
> > > idea of how to reproduce it?
> > 
> > Unfortunately not. It just happens after a totally random amount of
> > time; along with various other weird and wonderful effects, some of
> > which make the browser unusable. But none of this is consistently
> > reproducible. :(
> 
> Yes, the other weird effects are explained in the upstream report;
> registration of components seems to be lost. However no one seems to be
> able to reproduce it reliably, and you seem to be one of those who see
> it the more often.
> 
> All in all, how frequently does it happen?

I run into one of the side-effects about once a day. Just while replying
to your first message, I went to the Debian bug report, and tried to
follow the links to upstream; although I clicked on them, and the
browser appeared to be loading the pages, nothing happened for several
minutes. Eventually I realised that I'd run into the very bug I was
trying to read about, and closed all my ephy windows; sure enough the
ephy process hung around until I killed it by hand. :)

> Thanks,
-- 
Sam Morris <sam at robots.org.uk>