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Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

From Jape Person <japers@comcast.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch
Date 2017-02-17 01:40 +0100
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On 02/16/2017 06:11 PM, Benjamin Rochefort wrote:
> Le 2017-02-16 à 15:20, Paul van der Vlis a écrit :
>> Op 16-02-17 om 13:31 schreef Benjamin Rochefort:
>>> I think I fixed the random Icedove crashes I was experiencing on Jessie
>>> by setting layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false in Icedove's
>>> config editor.
>>
>> Interesting. Why do you think this helps?  How long are you running
>> without crashes?
>
> It's been weeks, maybe even months now.  I found this suggestion
> somewhere on the web after searching for something like 'random
> thunderbird crash'.  I have no idea what behavior this setting controls,
> but setting it to false hasn't removed any visible functionality as far
> as I can see.
>
>
After changing the setting I noticed one feature was missing -- the 
ability of Icedove to suddenly make my desktop appear while I was trying 
to read messages!

That's why I returned the setting to its default. I like surprises.

g,d&r

JP

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Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-15 15:40 +0100
  Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-15 16:00 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-15 16:20 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-16 10:20 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-16 10:50 +0100
  Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 16:10 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-15 21:30 +0100
  Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-15 16:10 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 16:40 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-15 21:30 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 01:20 +0100
  Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-02-15 16:50 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-02-15 17:00 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-15 17:10 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-02-15 17:20 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com> - 2017-02-15 19:10 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-15 19:40 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-02-15 21:40 +0100
          Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-02-16 04:10 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-15 21:20 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 23:50 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-16 00:00 +0100
          Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-02-16 09:30 +0100
            Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-16 15:20 +0100
              Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-02-18 10:40 +0100
                Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-02-25 16:50 +0100
                Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Mattia Oss <mais.toast@gmail.com> - 2017-02-25 17:50 +0100
                Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-25 18:40 +0100
                Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-02-26 10:30 +0100
          Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-26 00:20 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de> - 2017-02-16 23:30 +0100
  Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Benjamin Rochefort <ben@benwen.info> - 2017-02-16 14:00 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-16 15:10 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-26 00:20 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-16 21:20 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Benjamin Rochefort <ben@benwen.info> - 2017-02-17 00:40 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-02-17 01:40 +0100
          Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Benjamin Rochefort <ben@benwen.info> - 2017-02-17 03:10 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-02-16 21:50 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-02-16 22:00 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-02-16 22:20 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Mattia Oss <mais.toast@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 11:20 +0100

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