Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:36:34 +0300 From: Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com> To: Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> Cc: yuri@rawbw.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around Message-ID: <20100323083634.GA40654@free.bsd.loc> In-Reply-To: <539c60b91003221741l2a6b2a77pf609a5718ff7a5f4@mail.gmail.com> References: <4BA2D7A7.1020009@rawbw.com> <539c60b91003221741l2a6b2a77pf609a5718ff7a5f4@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon,22-03-2010 [17:41:16], Steve Franks wrote: > /usr/ports/www/xpi-noscript is another option, not without caveats... > > Steve > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote: > > Sometimes after some flash object is displayed firefox gets frozen for many > > few seconds,maybe ~20sec. > > Do you see the same? Is there anyfix for this? > > > > In additions I have 54 processes like this one > > 50006 ?? I 0:00.00 > > /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin > > /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection > > hanging around even after firefox process exits. > > > > linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r45 > > nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_5 > > firefox-3.5.8,1 > > > > Yuri Hi! There was a workaround for this issue published by DutchDaemon on forums.freebsd.org. I'm too lazy today to seek for that thread, sorry :) What he suggested is a simple cronjob script intended to constantly check process list and kill any single remaining proccess of npviewer.bin It works, but you should check every minute or so. -- Best regards, Jeff | "Nobody wants to say how this works. | | Maybe nobody knows ..." | | Xorg.conf(5) |
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