From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 14:30:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E0410656C1 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:30:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bdsfbsd@att.net) Received: from smtp102.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com (smtp102.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.96.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FC128FC16 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19172 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2010 14:03:40 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1283954620; bh=jrgGLNzJBF5KAaH5dTN5ZXhbiOv0la55mz5eIjLq4sQ=; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Content-Type:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:From:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:User-Agent; b=rP82eWaGpKa12HWlTd7n6N2Ubnc9IGCJuD443VHUrtjsXtmhtunV/kS18xm9gdnC1iAEyyY4pVBWVqb3k/enE+LtjZMbMocnr5IhoL8a1ZDIXkG0rKTy6KsOFiUOm40T+TOG2OwT079KPEN1iBV61EZM4bOAlMPQ/gq8KDOBT5k= Received: from ack5833s2.ad.service.osu.edu (bdsfbsd@128.146.175.36 with login) by smtp102.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; 08 Sep 2010 07:03:39 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: d5tX3UiswBBe7eAro3WwBCIcMc7tMmv23kUXyA-- X-YMail-OSG: 78dv.WAVM1kL7d0bNmnMMLw.TLfCoHTtnP3OKJQUbFMoQ4M VJC1xu5RKfyy6bNicO_Un8CmTEfHdhhPm0AR40ksD5GUnjunI8.Z1ix2KcH6 5ksEXL67kxPkPwnNQySTvX78Mu3wdDswcfsGCJwosLH46vz4VOI1TqYampsC xNhuTUhd6QgwF5wx8hKtG0nHTG5PDt57iOf.2.6febrMpVTcpc8pmplmkDt8 LR2pc_1lOupu7ZBLSVchdHuqE7p9fLiLMjsf85.kCqByJAvlTNSUXmTOQdWo J75jGvu1Uo0Z7dyn23AHr2Ho15jUwPyvPq6pdgycFJnbkL9BtP_OoqDIRcck y3.S6XN7USJRYIMQSO7wJud4dqIapC2A0vSOGrk_6K40- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: "David Southwell" , "Robert Huff" References: <201009080945.48847.david@vizion2000.net> <19591.30637.289885.767759@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:03:39 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: bdsfbsd@att.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <19591.30637.289885.767759@jerusalem.litteratus.org> User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.61 (Win32) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:35:14 +0000 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Browser choices & flash X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:30:26 -0000 On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:46:53 -0400, Robert Huff 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