From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 30 17:25:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F43716A41F for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:25:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottro@scottro.net) Received: from ms-smtp-02.rdc-nyc.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-smtplb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.109.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A0643D46 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:25:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottro@scottro.net) Received: from mail.scottro.net (cpe-68-175-68-211.nyc.res.rr.com [68.175.68.211]) by ms-smtp-02.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j6UHPWGe009955 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:25:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail.scottro.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6F5D940EA; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:25:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:25:32 -0400 From: Scott Robbins To: gnome@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050730172532.GA1300@mail.scottro.net> Mail-Followup-To: gnome@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: mutt-ng devel (FreeBSD) X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: Subject: Firefox and flash freeze on some sites X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:25:35 -0000 --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On several sites with heavy flash usage, firefox will freeze. This seems to be irrespective of Window manager (in most cases I use fluxbox but have had the same error with twm.) It also has occurred with boxes running 5.4-STABLE and 6.0BETA1 as well as on this machine. The uname output for this machine is FreeBSD mail.scottro.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Jul 27 19:= 53:16 EDT 2005 scottro@mail.scottro.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/S11 i386 Once or twice, upon a new upgrade of firefox, I could visit one of these sites and it would work as expected. However, upon restarting X, firefox would freeze once again. I use firefox with the linuxpluginwrapper port, using the libmap.conf (on both this machine and the 6.0 boxes, which are all I have at present) sample for 5-CURRENT. (The sample libmap.confs are installed with the linuxpluginwrapper port.) The latest firefox Makefile I have used, when experiencing this problem is from Jul 30 00:36 /usr/ports/www/firefox/Makefile Note that there have been improvements. One of the sites that used to freeze firefox was espn, and this seems to have been fixed. =20 However, if one goes to www.tvguide.com, clicks listings (you need to register to get listings--I use a throwaway hotmail.com address) and clicks a particular listing, firefox will freeze completely and one has to pkill the application. That is, it will work without problem until you click on any particular listing which is supposed to open a window and give a brief description of that listing.=20 This only happens on some sites, and I'm guessing that it's a flash, rather than other issue, as all the sites ever mentioned (on, for example, bsdforums) seem to be flash heavy. =20 Firefox doesn't seem to have this problem in various Linux distributions.=20 The problem can be duplicated by going to tvguide.com, going to the listings page and clicking any listing to get the show's description. I will be happy to provide any further information that you think might help. I have java installed, however, that seemed to be automagically detected by firefox upon installation, showing up in about:plugins before I installed the linuxpluginwrapper. I am not a programmer, so no doubt, I am leaving out useful information, however, I reiterate that I will be happy to run any tests that you wish run. Thank you for all your work on firefox--aside from this issue, I can use it in FreeBSD and view video, audio, most flash sites, etc.=20 Most sincerely, --=20 Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Harmony: So Slayer. At least we meet. Buffy: We've met Harmony, you half-wit. --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC67gM+lTVdes0Z9YRAoCEAKC5UXJkSABqf3Gj1I43azNFVariYwCgrSyu hAhC6E4jJa26ryrGkMSsWwI= =afc4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH--