Jaunty 64 bit firefox locks up my machine completely

[Sean Carolan]

I'll bet you are right.  All the sites that crashed my box had some
kind of flash widget.  I had hoped that flash (or any other user-level
process) would be somewhat isolated from the kernel and other
essential processes but maybe that's not the case.

Maybe I should run my browser inside a virtual machine!

On 7/11/09, lostson at lostsonsvault.org <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> wrote:
> Its 64 bit flash that's what did it mine
> ------Original Message------
> From: Sean Carolan
> To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
> ReplyTo: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
> Subject: Re: Jaunty 64 bit firefox locks up my machine completely
> Sent: Jul 11, 2009 4:59 PM
>
>> Are you sure it is Firefox causing this, or has it just happened when
>> you've happened to have Firefox running?
>
> Each time it happens, it coincides immediately with the moment that I
> load a new webpage in Firefox.  I suppose it could be a coincidence,
> but it is a bit odd that I'm loading a link in Firefox every time it
> happens.
>
>> What kind of hardware do you have?  Do you happen to have a VIA chipset?
>
> A dell quad-core Intel processor, with an nvidia graphics card and
> desktop effects turned on.
>
>> Are you using CPU power management?  Which version of Ubuntu?
>
> No, I'm not using CPU power management.  The Ubuntu version, as I
> mentioned in the original post, is 64 bit Jaunty Jackalope (9.04).
>
>> You didn't give anyone much information to go on.
>
> That's because I don't have much information to give.  When the system
> locks up and there is no error message in the log files or kernel dump
> file there's not a whole lot to give.
>
> I had just hoped there might be some known bug with an easy
> workaround....maybe that's not the case though.
>
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