problem with firefox

[David Fox]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Kim Briggs <patiodragon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes.  Seems to be when a Flash advertisement is present.

I've also noticed this from time to time as well. I wonder if it could
have anything to do with a possibly corrupt .mozilla file? I may try
and move it, as I had a little bit of a problem with my home directory
a few days ago (see the thread about xfs filesystem went south) but I
managed to get a lot of this back (turned up most of the files were in
/lost+found. I got some from backups, other files (avi's) were intact
but I had to find and move them all. But that's another subject
anyway.

If I go here http://scifi.dragonfly.com/stp2/ and try and play the
video, it crashed at least once. Reloading firefox causes it to play
normally.

I have flashplugin-nonfree here on amd64 hardy, all updates installed,
using firefox 3.0.

The package that provides nsplayer.bin may have some problems, as
nsplayer.bin often eats up considerable CPU time even when no Flash
objects are anywhere to be seen. Right now, typing is extremely
sluggish, because I have that video (it's pretty high-bandwidth)
running in another tab.

Watching CNN videos this AM was difficult. Sometimes it would work,
other times not(only text on the CNN video page(s) saying that a
request timed out). I have a pretty fast processor (amd dual core
64 at 5200) and plenty enough RAM (2 gigs). I also noticed several
nsplayer.bin processes running, and the CNN audio was overlapping,
playing sevveral audio files at the same time.

Despite having since rebooted, I go to play that file now (the Star
Trek one) and I'm still hearing CNN video audio from a prior session!

What's causing the audio playing? There are no CNN pages loaded here,
and I've quit the page that was playing the Star Trek video.




>
>>Can you help with this?
>
> No, but you can try Epiphany or Konqueror as alternative browsers in
> Ubuntu.  Note that Konqueror will  require loading some KDE libraries.
>  I believe Ephiphany uses some of the same code as Firefox, so this
> might not help you much(?)
>
> cheers,
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