Bugzilla – Bug 129477
Firefox locks up system
Last modified: 2005-10-29 02:16:00 UTC
Just installed SUSE 10.0 and it locks up on a regular basis when Firefox is running. By "locks up" I mean the system becomes unresponsive to keyboard input (I can still move the mouse cursor, but can't click on anything). Can't switch to another terminal, can't kill X, etc. I've had top running to try and catch anything unusual when this happens, but no luck so far. Also, nothing unusual shows up in the logs. I've downloaded all of the patches/updates and am using a geforce2 mx with nvidia driver. I've tried passing various acpi and apm options to the kernel through grub to disable them and that makes no difference either. I can reproduce this reliably. I open firefox and go to www.netbeans.org. When the page finishes loading, I right-click Firefox's titlebar and select Minimize. I then click on the Firefox icon in my window list to bring it back up and everything freezes.
Can you switch to another virtual terminal with e.g. ctrl-alt-F2, or is it completely locked up?
It's totally locked up. This also happened when I was using Konquereor last night instead of Firefox. I was browsing through opensuse.org and attempting to download the ISOs for 10.1.
Not a Firefox bug, then.
Only a guess, but please test with the OSS nv driver.
Looks like that worked. It has been up for days now.