Hello.

I use Xephyr with Firefox. I also run Firefox as a dedicated user. At seemingly random times, but on a regular basis, Firefox will behave oddly. Firefox will open links in a new window, scrolling up or down with my touchpad will cause the tab to go forward or backward through browser history, and sometimes capslock will be on when typing in Firefox, even though capslock is off.

Restarting Firefox does not fix these issues, but restarting Xephyr does. These issues typically happen when Firefox has been loaded and idle for many hours, although once it happened after only being loaded for a few minutes.

I'm guessing this is a memory corruption bug. Could any of you try to reproduce this bug, and could any of you suggest some simple ways (simple like strace) of debugging this? I would like to have something concrete to report to the Xephyr folks so that it gets fixed quickly.

I am running a recent snapshot on an AMD64 with 6GB of memory. I have no other problems with other software, so I think I can rule out damaged hardware.

Thanks

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