Re: Hovering mouse over tab X button causes 100% CPU usage in Linux

Yves Lambert wrote:
> paul wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't get any special messages in the console. The problem does not
>> occur on Windows using the same versions of SM and MZ.
>>   
> 
> I just don't suspect multizilla anymore :) This is definitely imho a 
> seamonkey bug. the problem is to find a valid and consistent testcase 
> and/or to avoid duping the bug. It may be a thread scheduling related 
> problem - difficult to extract a test case, then.
>> If I put the mouse over the X and click immediately, it is not so
>> noticeable. But it becomes increasingly slow. If I hover for 5 seconds,
>> response to click/mouseout takes 9 seeconds; if I hover for 10 seconds,
>> response takes 19 seconds.
> 
> Same with me, in fact. I just did not remember why i do not hover these 
> damn buttons ;-)

I'll promise to look into this a.s.a.p (I can now that my development 
platform has changed from Windows to Ubuntu 8.04) and will blog about 
this later this week.