Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:17:46 -0500 From: "Daniel R. Curran" <drc7257@cs.rit.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox Process Not Exiting Message-ID: <4030D10A.6060704@cs.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040216104032.GA58367@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <40305158.4090101@cs.rit.edu> <20040216211543.1872fc32.ggop@myrealbox.com> <20040216104032.GA58367@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Seeing as the problem would now seem to be in the linuxpluginwrapper or linux-flashplugin port is there a way to fix this problem? Is there any work being done on it? is it a known bug? What would the process be for one to get the ball rolling towards a fix? Thanks, Dan Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:15:43PM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > >>On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:12:56 -0500 >>"Daniel R. Curran" <drc7257@cs.rit.edu> wrote: >> >> >> >>>I am wondering if anyone else has this issue and if there is a fix for >>> >>>it. When I run firefox and then exit the program the process remains >>>resident, and it starts eating up the CPU. Does anyone know of a fix >>>for this. I have been manually killing the process, but this seems >>>like a horrible way to work with the program. >>> >>> >>One more vote from me. Same behaviour with firebird too. So it's not >>newly introduced... >> >> > >I've seen this happen with all of Mozilla, Firebird and now Firefox. >It's only certain web sites that trigger the effect, and it seems to >happen on sites which make use of a large amount of Flash stuff -- the >effect is even caused by Macromedia's test page at >http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ -- although quite often >what happens is that the flash infexted page will only load once (if >at all) and after that the whole browser freezes up and has to be >killed from the command line. > >I'd say it's more likely a bug in the linuxpluginwrapper or >linux-flashplugin ports. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > >
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