Fox News locks up Mozilla-firefox and my computer!

rharvey@cox · Last edited by rharvey@cox on Sat May 27, 2006 6:53 pm; edited 2 times in total

I'm running Mozill-Firefox 1.07 and have run into an odd problem. Every time I try to log on to Fox News, Firefox locks and also locks my computer. I can move the mouse around but my menus at the top and bottom of my screen will not unhide. I cannot change to another screen. have to exit X via ctrl-alt-bkspace. I don't know of any other web site that locks my computer up like this.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on and how to fix it?

Thanks.
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mark_alec · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:50 am Post subject:

Are you by any chance running X with the composite extension enabled?

rharvey@cox · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:17 am Post subject:

I have Adblock and Foxclocks enabled. I have not heard of the composite extension. What is it?

Thanks for your help!
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ecatmur · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:37 am Post subject:

Composite is an X extension, not a firefox extension. It is enabled by a line
Option "Composite" "Enable"
in xorg.conf.
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rharvey@cox · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject:

I don't see that line in my xorg.conf. What section is it supposed to be in? What function does it peform?

Thanks.
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ecatmur · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject:

It's in its own section:

rharvey@cox · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject:

That seems to have worked.

Thanks much.
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rharvey@cox · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 6:52 pm Post subject:

The fix

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

seems to have stopped working. I just checked, and I have that in my xorg.conf, but Foxnews has started locking everything up again. Any new ideas?

Thanks.
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01mf02 · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject:

Well, those lines are not the fix, they are the bug. :wink:

So remove those lines.

Unfortunately I don't have an idea what could cause this. Try opening this page as another user.

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rharvey@cox · Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 12:04 am Post subject:

Thanks.
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