Anyone else experience firefox hanging after closing a tab, or the whole browser, after playing a flash video ?
It doesn’t do it on all flash videos, but regularly enough to be very frustrating.
Is their anything I can do to investigate what’s happening to cause it to hang ?
It may not be firefox, it could be the flash player. I don’t know.
I would switch to Opera but firefox has plugins that I would miss, like NoScript, AdBlock etc.
Firefox version 3.0.11-5.2
sounds a bit unusual…probably something in your firefox (or as you
say, the flash plugin) has been damaged somehow…
i’d probably begin by disenabling plugins one by one, and using the
browser a while to see if one of those is the problem…if i got no
relief that way:
i guess i’d use yast to reinstall (right click on the check mark and
chooze “update”) both “Macromedia Flash Plug-In” and “MoxillaFirefox”…
if that does not work i think i’d shutdown firefox and then rename
your home’s /.mozilla directory to (something like) /.mozilla.OLD
then restart firefox and cross your fingers…maybe it runs great
now…maybe not…
if it does then you can search around in
~/.mozilla/firefox/[randomnumber].default for bookmarks.html (if you
have bookmarks that are important to you) and copy it over from old to
the new…
doing it that way and then installing add-ons one by one…and use EACH
a while until you learn if one is THE problem is a good plan…
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.~.
/V
/( )\ natural_pilot
^^-^^
Have seen this for some time now , not related to Flash Video , just normal click to close , takes several seconds to close .
gib62588 adjusted his/her AFDB on Monday 22 Jun 2009 06:06 to write:
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> Have seen this for some time now , not related to Flash Video , just
> normal click to close , takes several seconds to close .
>
>
Have a look in your /var/log/messages and see if there are any messages
about the npviewer plugin segfaulting or similar.
I sometimes see this after closing FF, it seems to happen if I have been
watching flash but could be something else as I do not use the npviewer for
flash, I have the 64bit (beta) flash plugin from the Adobe site manually
installed.
This does not appear to affect FF in any way just a bit of an annoyance.
I do sometimes see a slight delay when closing but have always put that down
to Xmarks ( foxmarks) syncing if I have new bookmarks as the delay is only a
second or two but on slower machines I suppose it could be quite
considerable, plus I have FF open all the time so is not to bad.
HTH
–
Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum
i agree, i think the slowness of closing can be attributed to the
several things that must be done to save states, data, etc across a
variety of add-ons…
try to disable ALL add-ons and see how much snappier Firefox is, alone…
mine delays one very tiny part of one second without add-ons and maybe
two seconds with my normal add on…
and, you might also be very surprised at how quickly it can spring to
life at start up!!
so, the solution to your delay problem is in YOUR hands–scrub down
the add ons, deleting those you don’t actually need/use…but, just
thought was neat to have…
enjoy the new speed.
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.~.
/V
/( )\ natural_pilot
^^-^^
This was happening to me. Check your Plugins and see if
you have multiple versions of flash. Get rid of them all but the latest.
I had like 3 versions in there.
This is frustrating.
I did as the first reply suggested and renamed my .mozilla folder and started up firefox with no add-ons installed.
Went to youtube, watched a video - tried to use the back button and firefox hung again. The very first flash video I watched. It’s not just a delay, it sits there for minutes and eventually an error message appears with KWin - Firefox is not responding and given the option to terminate it.
This was happening to me. Check your Plugins and see if
you have multiple versions of flash. Get rid of them all but the latest.
I had like 3 versions in there.
How would I check for multiple versions of flash ?
Thanks,
check your add-ons of FF.
Tools->Add-ons->plugins.
> How would I check for multiple versions of flash ?
Renaming your .mozilla would have fixed a multiple flash problem.
There is something else going on.
>> How would I check for multiple versions of flash ?
>
> Renaming your .mozilla would have fixed a multiple flash problem.
> There is something else going on.
Are there any other programs causing problems? You might need to start
eliminating background processes and window effects. My system gets
terribly unstable when Skype is running in the background.
Not all true. Flashplayer gets auto-installed via Yast. If you download the 64-bit and copy it to /usr/lib64/browser-plugins without removing the installed package from Yast, you’ll have 2 different ones. Put an earlier alpha build in some other plugin folder and here we have 3 different versions. To run the 64 bit the package from Yast is best removed.
Only plugins are
Java Plugin 1.6.0_13-b03
NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 0.9.9.1.4
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r159
swstein wrote:
> Only plugins are
>
> Java Plugin 1.6.0_13-b03
> NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 0.9.9.1.4
> Shockwave Flash 9.0 r159
Try launching firefox from a terminal, navigate to a site you know it makes
crash (youtube?) and check for any error or warning messages.
If you get no crash with flash plugin disabled, then you know who is the
culprit.
BTW, do you have any extensions installed? And what version of FF are you
running? Are you using the opensuse stock version, the one from opensuse
mozilla repo or just installed from Firefox’s site?
Greetings,
–
Camaleón
It doesn’t always crash on youtube, but when it does crashes it’s always when I have been playing a flash video. Either by trying to go back to a previous page or trying to close a tab which has a flash video in it.
The version of firefox is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060200 SUSE/3.0.11-5.2 Firefox/3.0.11
It’s the one that was installed when I installed OpenSuse and I have updated it using YaST as updates became available.
I now run Flash Killer addon to make sure that no flash contents loads unless I tell it to. That means I can have a stable browser but it goes back to regularly hanging when I enable flash.
From now on I will run it from the terminal and try to catch any error messages when it hangs. Will it be logging information to anywhere else.
I have checked /var/log/messages as suggested earlier but I can’t see anything to do with flash / firefox.
I do run extensions but it crashes on a clean run with no extensions running.
My flash player is version 10.0.22 and that came from the openSUSE update repo. What happens if you update yours to the current version?
Cheers
Steve
YaST reports
Flash Player Installed Version 9.0.159.0-0.1 Available Version 9.0.159.0-0.1.
Doesn’t show version 10 ??
I’m on OpenSuse 10.3
Sorry, you have the latest version packaged for 10.3.
swstein wrote:
> The version of firefox is:
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060200
> SUSE/3.0.11-5.2 Firefox/3.0.11
>
> It’s the one that was installed when I installed OpenSuse and I have
> updated it using YaST as updates became available.
Then you are using opensuse “mozilla” repo as opensuse 10.3 did not come
with that version of firefox… yes, I know it because I’m on opensuse 10.3
also 
zypper -v lr | grep mozilla
7 | Sí | No | rpm-md | mozilla | mozilla |
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_10.3/
> I now run Flash Killer addon to make sure that no flash contents loads
> unless I tell it to. That means I can have a stable browser but it goes
> back to regularly hanging when I enable flash.
I’m also running the same version of flashplayer that yours:
rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-player-9.0.159.0-0.1
and from mozilla repo I have installed:
rpm -qa | grep mozilla
mozilla-xulrunner190-gnomevfs-1.9.0.11-4.2
mozilla-nss-3.12.3-6.1
mozilla-nspr-4.8-1.1
mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0.11-4.2
mozilla-xulrunner190-translations-1.9.0.11-4.2
rpm -qa | grep Mozilla
MozillaFirefox-translations-3.0.11-5.2
MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-3.0.4-2.29
MozillaFirefox-3.0.11-5.2
But I have not encountered any failure pattern making firefox to crash.
> From now on I will run it from the terminal and try to catch any error
> messages when it hangs. Will it be logging information to anywhere else.
O.k. let us know if you get something relevant 
To get a complete backtrace of the error, I think you may need to install
the corresponding “-debuginfo” rpm package
(MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-3.0.11-5.2.i586.rpm).
Greetings,
–
Camaleón
Uninstall your flash plugin from Yast and try the following tutorial:
Programming and Linux: Install flash plugin for Firefox/others in Linux
Hope it helps.
I have that problem myself sometimes try this:
Preferences>Privacy under Private Data click Settings check the Cache box click OK then click the Clear Now button.WFM