Iceweasel/Firefox-esr: Temporal freeze when print/print preview
On Jessie without installing cups and the required packages,
two browsers:
* Iceweasel provided by iceweasel_38.8.0esr-1~deb8u1_amd64.deb
* Firefox-esr provided by firefox-esr_45.3.0esr-1\~deb8u1_amd64.deb
face temporal freeze (for about a minute) when print menu selected
(or Ctrl-P) or print preview menu.
This happens on both two different core-i5 laptops.
After trying some things including gdb, I found that if I install
cups (and the required) packages and restart the browser,
the problem disappears even after such cups packages are uninstalled.
During the freeze especially by print preview,
sometimes I have the message like:
Warning: Unresponsive script
chrome://global/content/printUtils.js:408
Unresponsive script chrome://global/content/printUtils.js:408
As the cups package is not required by both browsers,
I think I have to treat this as a bug.
Any comment is welcome, thx. Taro
(The below is the corresnponding log in /var/log/apt/history.log.
Start-Date: 2016-09-13 14:08:43
Commandline: apt-get install cups
Install: libfontembed1:amd64 (1.0.61-5+deb8u3, automatic), cups-core-drivers:amd
64 (1.7.5-11+deb8u1, automatic), cups-server-common:amd64 (1.7.5-11+deb8u1, auto
matic), cups-daemon:amd64 (1.7.5-11+deb8u1, automatic), libcupsmime1:amd64 (1.7.
5-11+deb8u1, automatic), cups-client:amd64 (1.7.5-11+deb8u1, automatic), cups:am
d64 (1.7.5-11+deb8u1), libgutenprint2:amd64 (5.2.10-3, automatic), ssl-cert:amd6
4 (1.0.35, automatic), libqpdf13:amd64 (5.1.2-2, automatic), qpdf:amd64 (5.1.2-2
, automatic), cups-browsed:amd64 (1.0.61-5+deb8u3, automatic), printer-driver-gu
tenprint:amd64 (5.2.10-3, automatic), cups-filters-core-drivers:amd64 (1.0.61-5+
deb8u3, automatic), libcupscgi1:amd64 (1.7.5-11+deb8u1, automatic), cups-filters
:amd64 (1.0.61-5+deb8u3, automatic), libcupsppdc1:amd64 (1.7.5-11+deb8u1, automa
tic), gsfonts:amd64 (8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.2, automatic), cups-common:amd64 (
1.7.5-11+deb8u1, automatic), poppler-utils:amd64 (0.26.5-2+deb8u1, automatic), c
ups-ppdc:amd64 (1.7.5-11+deb8u1, automatic), ghostscript:amd64 (9.06~dfsg-2+deb8
u1, automatic)
End-Date: 2016-09-13 14:09:02
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