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firefox spamming syslog in osx when world of warcraft is running

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gt400.59 replied 15 years ago
gt400.59
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firefox 4 (didn't happen with 3) spams the syslog on osx if it's running at the same time as world of warcraft. the problem does not occur under any other circumstances. the messages repeat many times per second, always in groups of two, so you get to see all of them (instead of "last message repeated 300 times", etc.). it's pretty annoying and i hope it can be fixed soon. i was actually kind of surprised that i didn't find anything on the web about it.

the machine is a macbookpro 5,1 running 10.6.7, with 4 gigs of ram. i'm generally running the 9400 video card; haven't tried it with the 9600 yet.

a couple of example messages follow:

May 28 18:50:07 crow [0x0-0xe67e67].org.mozilla.firefox[98390]: Sat May 28 18:50:07 crow.local firefox-bin[98390] <Error>: kCGErrorInvalidOperation: _CGSFindSharedWindow: WID 17628 May 28 18:50:07 crow firefox-bin[98390]: kCGErrorInvalidOperation: _CGSFindSharedWindow: WID 17628

(btw, wow, that "troubleshooting information" copy & paste page is pretty slick ...)

firefox 4 (didn't happen with 3) spams the syslog on osx if it's running at the same time as world of warcraft. the problem does not occur under any other circumstances. the messages repeat many times per second, always in groups of two, so you get to see all of them (instead of "last message repeated 300 times", etc.). it's pretty annoying and i hope it can be fixed soon. i was actually kind of surprised that i didn't find anything on the web about it. the machine is a macbookpro 5,1 running 10.6.7, with 4 gigs of ram. i'm generally running the 9400 video card; haven't tried it with the 9600 yet. a couple of example messages follow: May 28 18:50:07 crow [0x0-0xe67e67].org.mozilla.firefox[98390]: Sat May 28 18:50:07 crow.local firefox-bin[98390] <Error>: kCGErrorInvalidOperation: _CGSFindSharedWindow: WID 17628 May 28 18:50:07 crow firefox-bin[98390]: kCGErrorInvalidOperation: _CGSFindSharedWindow: WID 17628 (btw, wow, that "troubleshooting information" copy & paste page is pretty slick ...)

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gt400.59
gt400.59 Question owner

still broken in 4.0.1 ... i also ref'd this on the other feedback page, i'm not sure if that's how one is supposed to file a bug or not. posting here didn't seem to do much.

gt400.59
gt400.59 Question owner

added a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665266