[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#586387: chromium-browser: Lots of UI crashes and weirdness

[Joe Neal]

Package: chromium-browser
Version: 5.0.375.70~r48679-2
Severity: normal

I've been having a lot of weird problems with Chromium and I can't help but think they are all related.

Sometimes a tab will freeze and become unresponsive and unclosable until I take action on any other tab, ie
open another tab or close another tab.  Sometimes there is no way to unfreeze it but to close cromium entirely.
Sometimes when this happens non-chromium parts of the UI freeze up, such as my task bar, forcing a ctl-alt-del to
log out of KDE.  When the UI is hung like this is sometimes acts like the mouse focus is frozen, for example
hitting enter to logout won't work but will instead open a Konsole sesssion if that's where the focus was before I
tried to log out.  I always have to wait the full 30 seconds to log out because I'm unable to select enter to do so.

When I use Chromium in Fluxbox I get no maximize and close buttons on the window, when using the chromium default WM
and when I select "use system title bar and borders" nothing happens at all. 

When I use it in XFCE it leaves a dark bar accross the top of the screen where I had the title bar maximized after I 
close it.

I had the exact same problems with the Google packaged Chrome which is why I switched to the debian package when
it became available but unfortunately the problems remained. 

I saw no bugs that looked like this in the Google bug trackers.  I'll check the bug trackers of other distros an
see anything like it. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (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~r48679-2   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              2.11.2-1              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            1:4.4.4-5             GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4        2.28.1-3              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [l 7.7.1-3               A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglewmx1.5       1.5.4-1               The OpenGL Extension Wrangler - ru
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      1.28.1-1              Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.43-1              PNG library - runtime
ii  libprotobuf6       2.3.0-2               protocol buffers C++ library
ii  libstdc++6         4.4.4-5               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:
pn  chromium-browser-l10n         <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information