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Date:      Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:03:39 -0400
From:      bdsfbsd@att.net
To:        "David Southwell" <david@vizion2000.net>, "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Browser choices & flash
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In-Reply-To: <19591.30637.289885.767759@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:46:53 -0400, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:

>
> David Southwell writes:
>
[snip]
>>  3. ADVICE PLEASE
>>  Most reliable browser combination and recomendations of specific
>>  port combinations which can deliver reliable browsing including
>>  flash capability.
>
> 	What "works" for me - doesn't crash, but sometimes can't handle
> the content - is:
>
> 	firefox-3.6.8 (or)
> 	seamonkey-2.0.6
> 	nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_7
> 	linux-f10-flashplugin-10.1r82
>
> 	installed per the Handbook.  A minor annoyance is the wrapper
> doesn't exit cleanly and tends to leave hung jobs; not noticeable
> resource sink, until you have 20+ of them ....
>
>
> 				Robert Huff

Here is a possible fix available to the hung jobs problem:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=91872&postcount=5
(Not my work, I'm just pointing to it.)

Although instead of a cron job I actually just use a launcher on a desktop  
panel that does killall -9 npviewer.bin (and IIRC rm npviewer.bin.core* or  
something like that, sorry it isn't in front of me right now.) This works  
for me because I only really need it after the wife has been playing games  
on Facebook using Firefox. I use Opera with www/opera-linuxplugins and  
don't have any problems.

B



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