On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 09:52:46PM -0700, John Aston <au...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I defer to the expert's judgment on where the bug belongs, but I will note 
> that I've only experienced the bug with Iceweasel, and no other programs.  
> I've taken the same image (locally saved) and opened it using various viewers 
> and image editors, and encountered no difficulties when moving the pointer to 
> the other screen.  I've also done plenty of other tasks where one GUI-based 
> program was actively "doing" something on one screen and I've moved the 
> pointer to the other.  No problems there either.
> 
> Also, I just encountered the bug again without a large image.  I went to the 
> main yahoo page (to check for responses to this bug, ironically enough) and 
> once again moved my mouse pointer onto the other screen while the entire page 
> was rendering -- freeze, same as before.
> 
> Without being an expert on the matter, I'd probably place more of the bug on 
> Iceweasel's side, since I can't duplicate it using any other program.

The fact it happens only with iceweasel may simply mean it triggers a bug
with some extension that the other applications you tested don't use.
(Xrender, maybe ?)
Anyways, an application shouldn't be able to freeze X.

Mike



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