I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?
Thanks
Jim
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Jimmy Bradley bmobile40@ocellaris.net wrote:
I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?
Jim,
Is it stock firefox? What are you browsing with it at when it freezes?
From: Jimmy Bradley bmobile40@ocellaris.net
I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?
I've had "many" temporary whole desktop freezes due to Firefox being overloaded. Not sure who is the culprit... Gnome? Xorg? NVidia driver? Guess nothing in the bios or lnux logs? You could try another browser for a while and see if there are no more freezes...
JD
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Jimmy Bradley wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Jimmy Bradley bmobile40@ocellaris.net Subject: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this hasalready been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?
I've noticed something similar on Centos 5.6 when using Firefox. I traced it down to the Firefox flashplayer plugin - something called npviewer.bin
If I upload a picture to www.tinypic.com and then highlight the text to copy the picture's url, right clicking on the highlighted text causes Firefox to freeze, and swapping desktops is very slugish. Killing npviewer.bin unlocks the system again.
Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin?
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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Speaking of flash bugs, did anyone read slashdot today? They've got a story on *finally* finding the exact vector of the RSA intrusion: someone at the parent co. got an attached .xls file, and in the spreadsheet was an embedded flash video that actually used a known vulnerability to install malware.
As the guy in the original story asked, why would you want to embed a flash video in a freakin' spreadsheet?
Flash is dangerous. Treat it that way. I've got noscript, and the only flash I see are ones *I* explicitly choose to watch.
mark
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:54 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Flash is dangerous. Treat it that way. I've got noscript, and the only flash I see are ones *I* explicitly choose to watch.
Yep. We have always been 100% Flash free. We thought it dangerous years ago but 99.9% of people seem desperate to use it. Nice to know we we *right*.
Paul.
Always Learning wrote:
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:54 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Flash is dangerous. Treat it that way. I've got noscript, and the only flash I see are ones *I* explicitly choose to watch.
Yep. We have always been 100% Flash free. We thought it dangerous years ago but 99.9% of people seem desperate to use it. Nice to know we we *right*.
Oh, hey, then there's two of my favorite rants: flash and HR depts. A couple of years ago, when I was jobhunting, there was one very large corporation whose website had a *video* of some HR person telling you about their "hot jobs", while you were trying to search. Then there was the one, a couple years before, that had a flash video ->ON THE RESUME SUBMISSION FORM<-....
mark
On Friday, August 26, 2011 02:54:11 PM m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
As the guy in the original story asked, why would you want to embed a flash video in a freakin' spreadsheet?
Intriguing.
As to why, well, probably for the same or similar reasons as you'd embed into a powerpoint presentation. I can see some utility in video cells in a spreadsheet for certain things. I know, it's alien to the 'unix way' that we all know and love, but businesses like to have packaged 'things' that just have everything you need in them. Embedded app data inside other apps files is a seriously common technique in business; and it's fairly old tech, at least dating to OLE way back when. Once to can embed a generic OLE object, there will be a user out there that starts thinking up wierd and wonderful ways of presenting data with such embedding.
Instead of a 'notes' cell documenting the reason for, say, a manufacturing line failure or success you could have a video documenting same, and all within the spreadsheet. Yeah, I wouldn't do that, but I know businesspeople who would in a heartbeat.
On 08/26/2011 02:35 PM Always Learning wrote:
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin?
The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does.
Paul.
Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often.
Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the problems went away.
One site I went to every day had flash stuff all over it. When I disabled the plugin, in the places where formerly there were "eye-grabbing" advertisements there was no just code. After a few weeks they must have noticed, because the code was replaced by more or less static images. So maybe advertisers notice when people turn off the flash crap. And maybe that will make adobe eventually get their act together. Hope so... I kind of like some of the videos.
On Aug 26, 2011, at 4:33 PM, ken wrote:
On 08/26/2011 02:35 PM Always Learning wrote:
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin?
The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does.
Paul.
Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often.
Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the problems went away.
One site I went to every day had flash stuff all over it. When I disabled the plugin, in the places where formerly there were "eye-grabbing" advertisements there was no just code. After a few weeks they must have noticed, because the code was replaced by more or less static images. So maybe advertisers notice when people turn off the flash crap. And maybe that will make adobe eventually get their act together. Hope so... I kind of like some of the videos.
---- you can use flash block plugin on FF which allows you to simply click on the flash objects you're interested in and let the rest just show placeholders
Craig
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:33 -0400, ken wrote:
The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does.
Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often.
Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the problems went away.
Advantages of FF 4 with HTML 5
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-4-the-html5-parser-inline-svg-speed...
Problems with no 'official' video format for HTML 5
http://lifehacker.com/5488607/can-i-play-html5-youtube-videos-in-firefox-rig...
An alternative to Flash
http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/watch-youtube-videos-in-html5/
The last 2 links mentioned Linux problems with buggy Flash.
Paul.
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