Opera (the browser)
I generally use
firefox for my GUI browser
but lately it has been segfaulting with the following error:
The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System
error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was
'BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)'. (Details: serial 27
error_code 170 request_code 148 minor_code 2) (Note to programmers:
normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will
receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program,
run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior.
You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you
break on the gdk_x_error() function.) zsh: exit 1
firefox
This is inconvenient and I don't even know if it is a firefox bug
or an Xorg bug or something in between. The other major issue with
firefox that I have is its scrolling , to me at least, is horrible.
The memory use and CPU use soars and the everything seems to grind
to a halt trying to scroll a web page. This may not be firebox's
fault entirely, perhaps its bad markup doing this, but other
browsers, like
Opera for
example can handle the same page with ease. For example try
scrolling
drawn.ca in firefox and
then in opera (if you have both installed) or in safari and
compare.
I generally like firefox, its features are pretty much all I need,
it is Free Software and actively developed, and I don't like
complaining about something someone has worked so hard to provide
to me for free, but I worry that if firefox continues to lose the
rendering war, it will lose users as fast as it collected them when
the project really took of a couple of years ago. I hope its
something the developers are aware of and can address.