#8003 HIGH 8.2.0 (: easily crash Browse and Firefox

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#8003: easily crash Browse and Firefox
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   Reporter:  thomaswamm       |       Owner:  erikos                           
       Type:  defect           |      Status:  new                              
   Priority:  high             |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)             
  Component:  browse-activity  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Resolution:                   |    Keywords:  Browse, Firefox                  
Next_action:  diagnose         |    Verified:  0                                
  Blockedby:                   |    Blocking:                                   
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Comment(by thomaswamm):

 Trying to watch a video at youtube.com will also freeze Browse.
 Rather than powercycle to recover, I successfully used touchpad and
 hotcorner to get a frame, then keyboard was usable, then I did ctrl-alt-F1
 to get console, autologin as root, # ps -A to find pid of Browse, then #
 kill [pid] to kill Browse, exit console, then can use Sugar again to view
 logfile or relaunch Browse (which I am using now as I type this).

 Maybe what I am trying to say is that losing control of the XO is very
 frustrating, and makes diagnosis of crashes difficult. Is there any
 reliable way to regain control when an Activity seems locked up and
 keyboard does not respond?  Thirty years ago I would just hit ctrl-c to
 abort a running program and regain control. Much faster than cycling power
 to reboot.

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