On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40@ocellaris.net> wrote:
> * * I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has
> already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing
> up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running
> firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up.
> When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined *to think it's
> the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?
Jim,
Is it stock firefox? What are you browsing with it at when it freezes?
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08-26-2011, 12:20 PM
John Doe
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From: Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40@ocellaris.net>
> * * I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has
> already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing
> up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running
> firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up.
> When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined* to think it's
> the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?
I've had "many" temporary whole desktop freezes due to Firefox being overloaded.
Not sure who is the culprit... Gnome? Xorg? NVidia driver?
Guess nothing in the bios or lnux logs?
You could try another browser for a while and see if there are no more freezes...
JD
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08-26-2011, 12:20 PM
John Doe
Cent OS 6 freezing up
From: Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40@ocellaris.net>
> * * I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has
> already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing
> up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running
> firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up.
> When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined* to think it's
> the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?
I've had "many" temporary whole desktop freezes due to Firefox being overloaded.
Not sure who is the culprit... Gnome? Xorg? NVidia driver?
Guess nothing in the bios or lnux logs?
You could try another browser for a while and see if there are no more freezes...
JD
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08-26-2011, 01:09 PM
Cent OS 6 freezing up
John Doe wrote:
> From: Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40@ocellaris.net>
>
>> * * I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this
has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop
freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm
running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking
up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined* to think
it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this
problem?
>
> I've had "many" temporary whole desktop freezes due to Firefox being
overloaded.
> Not sure who is the culprit... Gnome? Xorg? NVidia driver?
> Guess nothing in the bios or lnux logs?
> You could try another browser for a while and see if there are no more
freezes...
I wouldn't say "many", but yes, it does. It also does things like slowing
to a crawl, and then there's when I allow something via noscript, and
refresh the page... and then have to refresh and restart the streaming
media that's running in another tab.
mark
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08-26-2011, 06:31 PM
Keith Roberts
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Jimmy Bradley wrote:
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> From: Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40@ocellaris.net>
> Subject: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
>
> I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has
> already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing
> up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running
> firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up.
> When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's
> the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?
I've noticed something similar on Centos 5.6 when using
Firefox. I traced it down to the Firefox flashplayer plugin
- something called npviewer.bin
If I upload a picture to www.tinypic.com and then highlight
the text to copy the picture's url, right clicking on the
highlighted text causes Firefox to freeze, and swapping
desktops is very slugish. Killing npviewer.bin unlocks the
system again.
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08-26-2011, 06:35 PM
Always Learning
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On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
> Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin?
The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same
facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like
Flash does.
Paul.
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08-26-2011, 11:33 PM
ken
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On 08/26/2011 02:35 PM Always Learning wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
>
>> Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin?
>
> The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same
> facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like
> Flash does.
>
> Paul.
Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often.
Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went
into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the
problems went away.
One site I went to every day had flash stuff all over it. When I
disabled the plugin, in the places where formerly there were
"eye-grabbing" advertisements there was no just code. After a few weeks
they must have noticed, because the code was replaced by more or less
static images. So maybe advertisers notice when people turn off the
flash crap. And maybe that will make adobe eventually get their act
together. Hope so... I kind of like some of the videos.
--
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08-26-2011, 11:38 PM
Craig White
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On Aug 26, 2011, at 4:33 PM, ken wrote:
>
> On 08/26/2011 02:35 PM Always Learning wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>
>>> Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin?
>>
>> The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same
>> facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like
>> Flash does.
>>
>> Paul.
>
> Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often.
>
> Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went
> into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the
> problems went away.
>
> One site I went to every day had flash stuff all over it. When I
> disabled the plugin, in the places where formerly there were
> "eye-grabbing" advertisements there was no just code. After a few weeks
> they must have noticed, because the code was replaced by more or less
> static images. So maybe advertisers notice when people turn off the
> flash crap. And maybe that will make adobe eventually get their act
> together. Hope so... I kind of like some of the videos.
----
you can use flash block plugin on FF which allows you to simply click on the flash objects you're interested in and let the rest just show placeholders
Craig
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08-27-2011, 12:12 AM
Always Learning
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On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:33 -0400, ken wrote:
> > The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same
> > facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like
> > Flash does.
> Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often.
>
> Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went
> into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the
> problems went away.
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