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    What specifically causes a mouse/desktop to freeze?

    I'm interested in the exact process of when an application (browser) makes the mouse freeze or crashes the desktop environment.

    Thanks in advance!
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    What browser are you using? FWIW, although a browser MAY cause the system to freeze momentarily because of excessive CPU usage (Chrome does this occasionally for me), it should NEVER crash the desktop environment. So, what browser, desktop, operating system / version, kernel are you using?
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    This has happened on all of my distros (12?),XP with all of my browsers so I'm thinking this issue is here to stay. I use Mageia 1 the most. I'm interested in knowing how the application that the mouse is interacting with locks out X sort of speak? I'm also interested in any help of how to use xsession error log with any intelligence. Is there a way to tell what messages are created by a certain application? Will the developers of X give me a chart of what the errors mean?
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    If you look in /var/log/messages or run the dmesg command, you might get some idea of what's going on. There are also application level messages that go into files in /var/log, either in a file or sub-directory.
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    Also starting the browser from the command line may give some interactive messages
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