From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QATUN-0005Ud-J3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:50:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BBEA1C055; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:48:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com (mail-qy0-f174.google.com [209.85.216.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE611C055 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:48:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so3646754qyk.19 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:48:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=M+jQWdeVsmKltQeGAU6YtC0oeH29xo3TrBjpHGSWzB0=; b=D9MQwjNTKE/avsWAbcgB0iwA2ekKahmJ94CrT0LD2R9qCFOH34aBk0//1CB3maHatM w/0Gb+7BflkB6PZ/ppSfE0tdV4NodNNEiUGlgV9F2jyit0I0sjGDg/vTFWDdKzCH7W7x NrwlEax2Cl5KUJgK1ivAhR63z372t4FlAhRtE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=IaFsHVYOQmquAtaWPz9fdMjujiiKdTC6PQUO5N09TnRKWQm5wrDbWz1gXqAwh2phI2 p/qUADcgGMIzTIxzEXIg9d365c9mHBy5i3Y4HE/7DjsCT4DMu64i//sFxnJOAFCroka0 JGLxav8FI/BaC/fkAmIYS9fs3slU40zLtSsD4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.73.95 with SMTP id p31mr987081qcj.34.1302814042915; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.227.71 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:47:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110414201610.GA2685@math.princeton.edu> References: <20110414195339.GA740@math.princeton.edu> <20110414201610.GA2685@math.princeton.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:47:22 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8DGEO7i-pwaB4vLRcOBdjLSoqGQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 4 hard freeze From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3fe65746e4a7d1694cd1dcee9f3e7362 On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:53:39PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I'm running into some weird problem. Firefox was upgraded to version 4 >> a few days ago. And up until last night I have had no problems with >> it. Starting this morning, however, it seems that Firefox would freeze >> up whenever I touch the keyboard with the window in focus! >> >> I can open new tabs, go visit links in the history, etc, with no >> problems. But any keyboard input (hitting Ctrl-t for new tab, Ctrl-n >> for new Window, or trying to enter an address into the address bar) >> completely freezes the program. >> > > Update: seems that only some keyboard input is affected. For example, > arrow keys for scrolling, and typing things in text/input boxes on > webpages are fine. But "hotkeys" interacting with Firefox, or typing > in the Address bar or Search bar freezes the program. Have you tried as a different user or with a fresh Firefox profile? I wonder if it would make a difference.