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firefox-3.0 package

Can not move folders in the Bookmarks menu by drag n drop

Bug #328307 reported by George Varghese on 2009-02-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #238542: [Master] Firefox crash when organizing bookmark menu. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Rich Johnson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

This may be a duplicate of Bug #198212

I use an old laptop (Pentium 3 with 196MB RAM). Dell Inspiron 4000.
kernel is 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 00:13:11 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121621 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5

I experience the same problem as Ralph Janke reported in Bug #198212. When i try to move a folder in the Bookmarks menu by clicking it, holding it and dragging it, the whole desktop freezes. I can not close the program, start another program or shutdown the laptop. The mouse pointer turns to different one (a plus sign or something) and can be moved. But it does not help since the desktop is not responding. The only thing that works is Ctrl+Alt+F1/F7/F8. I go to shell by Ctrl+Alt+F1, login, kill firefox process, log out and come back by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F8. Then I restart the Firefox to continue working. I experienced it a few times.

UbuntuDell:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04

UbuntuDell:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
*** 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://debian.nctu.edu.tw hardy-updates/main Packages
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 cdrom://Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423) hardy/main Packages
        500 http://debian.nctu.edu.tw hardy/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 11 23:17:51 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/real/RealPlayer
LANG=en_IN
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

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George Varghese (geovar) wrote on 2009-02-11:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (493 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Eddie M. (eddiemartinez) wrote on 2009-02-21:

usability

Changed in firefox-3.0:
assignee:	nobody → nixternal

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drew212 (mstngdrew212) wrote on 2009-09-13:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 238542, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.