Any chance fontconfig 2.13 could be backported to bionic? This is a seriously annoying issue.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to fontconfig in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1832787 Title: fontconfig 2.12 in 18.04 causes firefox to freeze when launching chrome Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: fontconfig version: 2.12.6-0ubuntu2 Related: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1076412/firefox-freezing-with-100-cpu- usage-for-30-seconds-when-launching-chromium https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1495900 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411338 Steps to reproduce: 1) Launch firefox, open a few tabs 2) Launch chrome 3) Go back to firefox, and notice it starts being very slow, switching tabs do nothing (the content area remains blank). 4) Backport fontconfig 2.13 from cosmic to bionic 5) Try to reproduce 1-3, be happy because it is now working fine! I backported 2.13.0-5ubuntu3 from cosmic to bionic, if that helps. I don't have the right setup right now to do a bisect from upstream or from debian patches sadly. ~ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/1832787/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
