[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#585743: chromium-browser: Stops working on URIs after running for awhile

[S.D.Allen]

Package: chromium-browser
Version: 5.0.375.70~r48679-1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable


This is a wierd bug and I'm very frustrated by it. Everything seems to
work in the main tab; but if one clicks on any URI that is to open in
a child tab it will result in the cursor just spinning. This doesn't
seem to affect an URI clicked on the first time after launching the
application. Subsequent attempts do fail however.

When the above behaviour exhibts itself, upon quitting chromium these
tasks continue running gobbling up memory. I've found it necessary to
force quite via htop afterwards, each and every time.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on:
ii  chromium-browser-i 5.0.375.70~r48679-1   page inspector for the chromium-br
ii  libasound2         1.0.23-1              shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0        1.30.0-1              The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libavcodec52       5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi
ii  libavformat52      5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil49        4:0.5.2-1             ffmpeg utility library
ii  libbz2-1.0         1.0.5-4               high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6              2.11.1-3              Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2          1.8.10-4              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.2.24-1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.86-1                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2     1.4.13-stable-1       An asynchronous event notification
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-7               XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-2.1             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.3.11-1              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1            1:4.4.4-4             GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4        2.28.1-3              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.24.1-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.20.1-1              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libicu42           4.2.1-3               International Components for Unico
ii  libjpeg62          6b-16.1               The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d        4.8.4-1               NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d         3.12.6-2              Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.0-1              Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.43-1              PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6         4.4.4-4               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libv8-2.2.7        2.2.7-1               V8 JavaScript Engine
ii  libx11-6           2:1.3.3-3             X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6           2:1.1.1-3             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2            2.7.7.dfsg-2          GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1        1:0.9.5-2             X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1         1.1.26-3              XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxss1            1:1.2.0-2             X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  xdg-utils          1.0.2+cvs20100307-1   desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

chromium-browser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium-browser suggests:
ii  chromium-browser-l10 5.0.375.70~r48679-1 chromium-browser language packages

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