lotuseclat79
April 11th, 2012, 04:14 PM
I use Ubuntu Natty (11.04) from a USB flash drive, and have my own setup scripts for the way I like it, and use Firefox 3.6.28 (for numerous add-ons which are not yet supported by later versions of Firefox) which will soon be retired from Mozilla support later this month.
AFAIK, Firefox still suffers from the mouse-click freeze problem, and I assume that when this happens (maybe if I am lucky), this may only affect the browser. The mouse can be moved, but nothing happens when the regular force-quit button is clicked on and all seems to be frozen (but is that really the case, e.g. are OS components being scheduled when this happens?).
Another assumption I am making is that if a force-quit button can be created with the -20 Nice priority, then maybe I will have a chance to kill Firefox and restart the old session (before the frozen mouse click) or start an entirely new Firefox session. This may be a faulty assumption on my part, but if it works, then it is worth a try.
One problem I see with the current force-quit with the current Add to Panel default is that it does not have a right-click Properties pull-down like the gnome-terminal icon added to the launcher panel.
I assume that I may have to recompile the source code for force-quit which may be xkill (if I remember a file I saved from a thread in these forums) in order to instantiate a launcher with the Properties right-click option (presumably it would make it easier to create the Nice -20 priority at launch with this feature).
Thanks for any help,
-- Tom
AFAIK, Firefox still suffers from the mouse-click freeze problem, and I assume that when this happens (maybe if I am lucky), this may only affect the browser. The mouse can be moved, but nothing happens when the regular force-quit button is clicked on and all seems to be frozen (but is that really the case, e.g. are OS components being scheduled when this happens?).
Another assumption I am making is that if a force-quit button can be created with the -20 Nice priority, then maybe I will have a chance to kill Firefox and restart the old session (before the frozen mouse click) or start an entirely new Firefox session. This may be a faulty assumption on my part, but if it works, then it is worth a try.
One problem I see with the current force-quit with the current Add to Panel default is that it does not have a right-click Properties pull-down like the gnome-terminal icon added to the launcher panel.
I assume that I may have to recompile the source code for force-quit which may be xkill (if I remember a file I saved from a thread in these forums) in order to instantiate a launcher with the Properties right-click option (presumably it would make it easier to create the Nice -20 priority at launch with this feature).
Thanks for any help,
-- Tom