Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

ian_bruce at fastmail.net ian_bruce at fastmail.net
Sun Apr 18 08:40:20 UTC 2010


On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:53:26 +0200
Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:

>> Does tcpdump show the DNS query for the webhost when a page gets
>> loaded?
> 
> Yes it does. Have you tried with another window manager ?

xfwm4 (v4.6.1-1) and metacity (v1:2.28.0-3) exhibit exactly the same
behavior. Are there any others you would like me to try?

I don't really see why the window manager would have anything to do with
it anyway. Either mouse movement events get reported to the window in
question, or they don't. The real issue is, why WebKit (or whatever)
feels compelled to make a DNS query for "." every time it receives a
mouse move event.

As I already mentioned, neither Galeon nor Iceweasel have this problem;
it seems to be WebKit-specific. But since you can't reproduce it, there
must be some other dependency as well.

some library versions:

libgtk2.0-0 : 2.20.0-2

libglib2.0-0 : 2.24.0-1

Anything else come to mind?






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