In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day.
And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens, the clock, menu and so on.
Hmmmm ... methinks it may finally be time to change my desktop to FC and stick with Centos on my servers.
Alan McKay wrote:
In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day.
And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens, the clock, menu and so on.
Hmmmm ... methinks it may finally be time to change my desktop to FC and stick with Centos on my servers.
FWIW, I upgraded from 5.3 on my desktop machine and I have no problems with Firefox.
~ $ rpm -q firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos
Ryan
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Ryan Pugatch rpug@tripadvisor.com wrote:
Alan McKay wrote:
In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day.
And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens, the clock, menu and so on.
Hmmmm ... methinks it may finally be time to change my desktop to FC and stick with Centos on my servers.
FWIW, I upgraded from 5.3 on my desktop machine and I have no problems with Firefox.
~ $ rpm -q firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos
Same here -- painless upgrade and everything is working fine.
~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos
Is it possible that there is some kind of video driver issue?
Ron Blizzard wrote:
Same here -- painless upgrade and everything is working fine.
~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos
huh. something sketchy happening on my centos5 test system, then...
# yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
# yum list firefox Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors * addons: mirrors.netdna.com * base: mirrors.kernel.org * extras: mirror.san.fastserv.com * updates: mirrors.netdna.com addons | 951 B 00:00 addons/primary | 203 B 00:00 base | 2.1 kB 00:00 base/primary_db | 2.0 MB 00:03 extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 extras/primary | 110 kB 00:00 extras 288/288 updates | 951 B 00:00 updates/primary | 204 B 00:00 Installed Packages firefox.i386 3.0.12-1.el5.centos installed firefox.x86_64 3.0.12-1.el5.centos installed #
this is x86_64 centos5.4 freshly yum updated from centos 5.3 freshly installed using the network install ISO
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:16 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
Ron Blizzard wrote:
Same here -- painless upgrade and everything is working fine.
~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos
Installed Packages firefox.i386 3.0.12-1.el5.centos installed firefox.x86_64 3.0.12-1.el5.centos installed #
this is x86_64 centos5.4 freshly yum updated from centos 5.3 freshly installed using the network install ISO
Interesting - I have this after the upgrade:
firefox.i386 3.0.14-1.el5.centos installed firefox.x86_64 3.0.14-1.el5.centos installed
But I also am now seeing a problem that was not showing up before, similar to one I've had with SeaMonkey for a long time. After some period of time, all of my Firefox windows stop showing flash videos properly and I get long periods of silence interpsersed with bursts of high-speed sound (noise, actually), or the video just stops a few seconds in. I don't think this is a CentOS problem per se, and I have posted about it here before, just usually in reference to SM, not FF.
Of course, now that I'm using FF more for flash (because it works better than SM for that and I rarely keep FF windows open long enough to see this), it happens more frequently.
mhr
MHR wrote:
Of course, now that I'm using FF more for flash (because it works better than SM for that and I rarely keep FF windows open long enough to see this), it happens more frequently.
I don't use CentOS as a desktop but this still may be of use...
On both my win32 and my debian systems that use firefox I use the prefbar extension which has an option to enable/disable flash, I usually keep it off unless I need it but it seems to unload the module on the fly(doesn't show up in about:plugins), and from what I can see it renames the file. I don't know if renaming the file is enough, but you may be able to restart the flash plugin dynamically without restarting the browser with this(or perhaps another) extension.
Real handy for when flash holds onto my audio card preventing other apps from using it, hit the checkbox and it kills flash without causing instability in the browser.
nate
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:25 -0700, nate wrote:
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I don't use CentOS as a desktop but this still may be of use...
On both my win32 and my debian systems that use firefox I use the prefbar extension which has an option to enable/disable flash, I usually keep it off unless I need it but it seems to unload the module on the fly(doesn't show up in about:plugins), and from what I can see it renames the file. I don't know if renaming the file is enough, but you may be able to restart the flash plugin dynamically without restarting the browser with this(or perhaps another) extension.
I just have it disabled normally click Tools->Add-ons at the start of the day. If I'm going to paly something I <Alt>-<Tab> and either <Enter> (I'm already positioned ther) or <ALT>-<E>.
Disable is the same, but <alt>-<D> or <Enter> to disable.
It's nice because if you forget to do beorehand, just refresh the screen after and it acts like you didn't forget.
I like this because it's one less thing from the outside world I have to keep track of or update, etc.
Real handy for when flash holds onto my audio card preventing other apps from using it, hit the checkbox and it kills flash without causing instability in the browser.
nate
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
But I also am now seeing a problem that was not showing up before, similar to one I've had with SeaMonkey for a long time. After some period of time, all of my Firefox windows stop showing flash videos properly and I get long periods of silence interpsersed with bursts of high-speed sound (noise, actually), or the video just stops a few seconds in. I don't think this is a CentOS problem per se, and I have posted about it here before, just usually in reference to SM, not FF.
I've had problems of this sort with the mplayerplug-in occasionally. In my case it usually means something has grabbed the sound device and then gotten stuck -- I often have to quit and restart firefox and/or use "ps" from a shell to find and kill off a rogue mplayer.
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