On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:56:31PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > Who is responsible for Iceape and Iceweasel? > > I am running Debian 4.0, which came with these two applications rather than > the Mozilla applications, and the two applications appear to be quite buggy > and unstable. they are renamed versions of the firefox and seamonkey(?). Otherwise there is essentially no difference between them. ... > > Both Iceape and Iceweasel, open up "untitled windows" when trying to open > web pages at all kinds of locations, and, trying to close one of these > "untitled windows" when it is initially displayed, crashes the application, > including all of the browser windows that it has open; a procedure has to > be used, of some time later, finding the duplicate copy of the "untitled > window" that the application has opened, and, closing that, will cause the > "untitled window" to close. So, when these "untitled windows start opening, > all that can be done, is minimising the "untitled window" and its duplicate > (they open in pairs), and, again clicking on the link to get the > destination that was sought when the application decided to goawry. I'm confused by this description above. The only thing I know of that causes this "untitled window" issue is when you open a .pdf or some other externally handled file while using a middle click (opening a tab). And closing them certainly doesn't crash anything. Perhaps you could provide specific instructions on how to duplicate this problem for others to try? > > Also, the two applications appear to be designed to use up all of the RAM, > regardless of how much RAM is available and how many browser windows and > tabs ar open, leading to crashes in the application, the windows manager, > and, sometimes, the operating system. there are (or were at least) memory leaks. That appears to be improving in later versions coming down the pipe. A
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