From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 06:11:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2750416A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 06:11:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from host7.globalnameservers.com (host7.globalnameservers.com [209.239.34.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE8443D1F for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 06:11:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drc7257@cs.rit.edu) Received: from cs.rit.edu (roc-66-67-196-34.rochester.rr.com [66.67.196.34]) i1GEBddi031864 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:11:39 -0500 Message-ID: <4030D10A.6060704@cs.rit.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:17:46 -0500 From: "Daniel R. Curran" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040209 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40305158.4090101@cs.rit.edu> <20040216211543.1872fc32.ggop@myrealbox.com> <20040216104032.GA58367@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040216104032.GA58367@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Firefox Process Not Exiting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:11:40 -0000 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" 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 > > >