[Pidgin] #7924: Spontaneous freeze for no apparent reason occurring when IM window is open (especially/only AIM)

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#7924: Spontaneous freeze for no apparent reason occurring when IM window is open
(especially/only AIM)
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 Reporter:  Stradiot                |        Owner:  MarkDoliner
     Type:  defect                  |       Status:  new        
Milestone:                          |    Component:  AIM        
  Version:  2.5.3                   |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:  Crash Freeze Vista AIM  |  
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Description changed by Stradiot:

Old description:

> This happens multiple times a day with the regular pidgin install. With
> the debug install, I've only seen it happen once today so far. It seems
> pretty spontaneous and random but I believe it only ever happens when a
> message window is open (in my experience, it has only happened with AIM)
> and an IM conversation is occurring back and forth.
>
> It might not be an AIM issue but I can't be sure of anything. I use
> windows vista home premium with service pack 1 and all the latest windows
> updates.
>
> When it happens, I lose all control over everything about pidgin, the IM
> window looks really funky and all the text disappears and/or distorts
> before windows kicks in and pops up a button that says "close the
> program" or something.
>
> I believe it's basically just a freeze and perhaps windows vista
> automatically sets frozen programs to pop up that little button that says
> "close the program" and that there's something wrong with it like it
> isn't responding or something.

New description:

 This happens multiple times a day with the regular pidgin install. With
 the debug install, I've only seen it happen once today so far. It seems
 pretty spontaneous and random but I believe it only ever happens when a
 message window is open (in my experience, it has only happened with AIM)
 and an IM conversation is occurring back and forth.

 It might not be an AIM issue but I can't be sure of anything. I use
 windows vista home premium with service pack 1 and all the latest windows
 updates.

 When it happens, I lose all control over everything about pidgin, the IM
 window looks really funky and all the text disappears and/or distorts
 before windows kicks in and pops up a button that says "close the program"
 or something.

 I believe it's basically just a freeze and perhaps windows vista
 automatically sets frozen programs to pop up that little button that says
 "close the program" when there's something wrong with a program like it
 isn't responding or it's frozen or something

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