[CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up

[Keith Roberts]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Jimmy Bradley wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40 at 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 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 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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