Firefox problem, mouse locking up

[hkfczrqj]

Hello everyone,

I have a Compaq Presario R3000 laptop (AMD64 +3400, 1GB ram, 80 GB HD...). So far I've been tackling each of the issues with this laptop succesfully (thanks to this forum!... I still don't have sound, but that's for later), but I haven't found any answers for this one (I hope this is the right forum):

I just emerged mozilla-firefox. When I start it, the mouse locks up! I can use firefox and everything in KDE with the keyboard, but the mouse is stuck. This is the same, regardless if I'm using the usb mouse or the touchpad. When I close/kill firefox, the mouse is still frozen, so I have to restart KDE.

Any thoughts on why this is happening? Any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks

[t3rm1nal]

running fluxbox, 2.4 kernel, USB mouse, same problem here with firefox, only it wont lock up right away, it takes a while, sometimes 30 minutes to hours...

[fklama]

I used to habe the same problem and tried to reemerge firefox, but it didn"t work.
But when I reemerge xorg everythig was fine again.
I also deleted a flash driver that didn't work.

Hope that helps.

Frederik

[digitalb0y]

I also Have the same issue with my usb mouse,
Using XFCE & Firefox. Works fine most of the time then craps out after a few hours of web browsing, Tried many things like different firefox, different kernels, but it seems to work fine with an ps2 mouse strange, Has any one found a solution? I'll try what fklama said, thanks! but thats not to be taken lightly, re-emerging X-org takes a long while.
P.S. Also don't have this on my non-64bit gentoo computers.

[fklama]

I had this problem with both my USB and PS/2 mouse.
Firefox crashed my whole mouse input whenever it was running for more than 10-30seconds.
And now that you mention it, I am running xfce4 too.
But since I recompiled xorg, firefox didn't act up once (had the same firefox session up for a week once).
xorg compile time is OK, when I start it bevore I go to bed it is finished when I wake up.

Frederik

[hkfczrqj]

Thanks guys for the ideas, but

*I reemerged xorg, with no success.
*Then, I even reemerged firefox, again with no luck



Probably I'll stick to konq in the meantime. Maybe a magic 'emerge -u world' will fix it in the future.

Thanks anyway.

[fklama]

Try and start Firefox on the console, maybe you get some uyseful error messge.

Frederik

[hkfczrqj]

Well... firefox didn't give something too useful, I think:

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No running windows found.

but by chance I realized that there was some output in startx:

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X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
   Major opcode: 6
   Minor opcode: 0
   Resource id:  0x1e0000d

Does it mean something??

PJ

[hkfczrqj]

It's been a while, but I found out the following:

I just emerged xmms, and the mouse froze pretty much in the same fashion. I put the blame now on gtk+-1.2.*, required to build both firefox and xmms.. I looked up in the forums, and I couldn't find out anything similar.

So I ask again, does anybody have a similar problem?

BTW, do you think that the USE="-gtk" has any influence on this?


EDIT: indeed, when I emerged mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (~amd64), which uses gtk+2, it worked. In fact, I'm posting from firefox right now!

Thanks,
PJ

[hkfczrqj]

... the problem is back again. After I reestarded, the mouse froze just like before. But only with GTK+ apps (firefox, beep media player)

I'll ask in the Desktop Enviroments forum for a hint.

[fklama]

I found a solution to the problem (my firefox problem at least).
It is not pretty,but it gives a start to narrow down the problem.
You will find out that Firefox only crasches for a certain user, this is the case because something (I have not determined what yet) in the ~/.mozilla directory is causing firefox to crash.
Delete or rename the directory and firefox will start just as new (without your bookmarks or any configuration though.
You can probably copy the bookmark file into your new ~/.mozilla directory, since I doubt that this is the culprit.

I will post an Update once I know more.

Frederik Klama

[snapper73]

Are you using the synaptic touchpad driver?

I had the same problem with firefox after emerging the synaptic touch pad driver. It was because I had my xorg.conf configured incorrectly and my kernel did not have support for /dev/input/eventX.

*shrug*

Good luck.

[fklama]

No, I do not.

I have a PS/2 and a USB mouse.
As you could have seen (from the configuration in my signature) I do not have a Laptop Computer.
7 Harddrives do not really fit into a Laptop.

Frederik Klama

[hkfczrqj]

Are you using the synaptic touchpad driver?

I had the same problem with firefox after emerging the synaptic touch pad driver. It was because I had my xorg.conf configured incorrectly and my kernel did not have support for /dev/input/eventX.

Wow. Yes, I have the synaptics driver installed, and the kernel patched with the ALPS patch... How did you configure X? I mean, what are the relevant parts (both in xorg.conf and the kernel)?

BTW, after all this weeks I just managed to get it working partially... but I never suspected that the touchpad might be at fault (well, with the cursor locking up, I wonder why I didn't think of it before ).

I haven't tried deleting the .mozilla directory, yet I've done multiple reinstalls of firefox.

Thanks,

pj

[fklama]

I have found that the Flash-plugin was the fault.
Whenever it is installed my firefox crasches (sometimes elier and sometimes imidiately).
The mouse still worked, but the panel and taskbar in xfce4 did not work until I killed firefox.

Looks like there can be several reasons for firefox dying on you.

Frederik Klama