npviewer.bin takes over processor

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#1

When using mostly firefox,
the npviewer.bin takes 70% of the cpu and even 100% and then locks the system. Not all sites on firefox but amazon, ebay, met office. Close the window and the npviewer.bin cpu use is not even registered using top.

This seems to be a problem in 11.1, have not tried 11.2 yet.

Any ideas - Thanks

#2

thats adobe flash (or Shockwave Flash)

go to Tools > Add-Ons -> Plugins and tell us what version you have.

#3

Hi

Shockwave Flash 10.1.d51

#4

hmm in 11.1 i upgraded to 10.0 and then downgraded to 9.x again because i had the same behaviour. however i am unable to find a 9.x package for 11.2.

anyone else?

oh, by the way: are you on a 32bit or 64bit machine?

#5

Hi
Linux 2.6.27.39-0.2-default x86_64

Thanks

I have a lap top and table top machine both with the same problem. I will not go for 11.1 if this problem was not sorted in 11.1.

Thanks

#6

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I’ve seen this with every distro I’ve used. npviewer is used to load any
number of plugins into Firefox and if those plugins are loaded (flash is a
big offender, and probably the biggest) then they can request as much CPU
as possible. Blocking Flash crap has helped me a lot and I’ve tried
submitting a bug with Adobe but they are a bit slow to work on this it seems.

Good luck.

signetone wrote:
> brian_j;2083425 Wrote:
>> hmm in 11.1 i upgraded to 10.0 and then downgraded to 9.x again because
>> i had the same behaviour. however i am unable to find a 9.x package for
>> 11.2.
>>
>> anyone else?
>>
>> oh, by the way: are you on a 32bit or 64bit machine?
>
> Hi
> Linux 2.6.27.39-0.2-default x86_64
>
> Thanks
>
> I have a lap top and table top machine both with the same problem. I
> will not go for 11.1 if this problem was not sorted in 11.1.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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#7

sorry I meant I will not go for 11.2 as this is not sorted in 11.1. This is unacceptable and if left some safety device steps in, thats when all the fans are going full belt!!!

It was not a problem in 10.2.

BTW it does npviewer does take control of the cpu with firefox closed and using Konqueror.

Thanks

Is there a work around?

How do I stop Flash and what difference will I see?

#8

I have taken out the flash -player - Adobe Flash plugin and standalone player (10.0.32.18-0.1.1) and the problem still exists!

Thanks

#9

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Find which plugin the pages you are on are using and disable those to
confirm the issue is there.

Good luck.

signetone wrote:
> I have taken out the flash -player - Adobe Flash plugin and standalone
> player (10.0.32.18-0.1.1) and the problem still exists!
>
> Thanks
>
>
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#10

if its still npviewer.bin adobe flash was not removed. this could be, if you did not use the package manager to install it.

try deactivating it in firefox plugins.

also try Ad Block+ -> removes most of the ****.

#11

Try this add-on
mozdev.org - prefbar:
I use it on every mozilla based browser (Firefox, Seamonkey) and every OS I have, it can disable flash with a simple check box, and if I really need it reenable it again with a simple click it can also disable all plugins on a per tab basis and you can check if a plugin is the culprit.
p.s. do U have any media plugin enabled? (vlc or totem or gxine)
those boys can make problems on pages with a lot of embedded media elements.

#12

signetone wrote:

>
> signetone;2083718 Wrote:
>> Hi
>> Linux 2.6.27.39-0.2-default x86_64
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> I have a lap top and table top machine both with the same problem. I
>> will not go for 11.1 if this problem was not sorted in 11.1.
>>
>> Thanks
>
> sorry I meant I will not go for 11.2 as this is not sorted in 11.1.
> This is unacceptable and if left some safety device steps in, thats when
> all the fans are going full belt!!!
>
> It was not a problem in 10.2.
>
> BTW it does npviewer does take control of the cpu with firefox closed
> and using Konqueror.
>
> Thanks
>
> Is there a work around?

pkill npviewer

will end the problem. I don’t know how to prevent it.

>
> How do I stop Flash and what difference will I see?
>
>

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#13

I have one 32bit copy of OpenSUSE running on a desktop at home and this thing is driving me crazy.

My daughter wants to play a flash game but the whole thing becomes so slow it times out after 20 sec.

Anyone managed to solve this issue? On an Ubuntu forum someone suggested to nice the flash plug in to prevent it from taking over. Still, it will continue to suck CPU as long as no other process needs it.

Thanks!

#14

I have been having issues with this for 2 years ever since I have moved over to Ubuntu, (and of course 64-bit which undoubtable is the problem) with adobes flash player’s 64 version. Every upgrade and now with SUSE as well. And I have revisisted this exhaustably a number of times without ever finding a solution? Any help would be much apprediated!!

#15

Hallelujah.

the npviewer.bin problem has finally been solved by the new adobe flash player 64 bit ALPHA, released a few weeks ago.

Now it doesn’t even register in the processes, just a Firefox process using less than half the resources,

FINALLY YEAH

#16

Great at long last.

Is there a link? for loading?

Thanks

#17

The adobe link is

Adobe Labs - Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux

and a complete install description is here …

echo “Stopping any Firefox that might be running”
sudo killall -9 firefox

echo “Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:”
sudo rm -f /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

echo “Installing Flash Player 10”
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

now doing some cleaning up:

sudo rm -rf libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -rf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

#18

Hi

Thanks ack0329 for the detailed reply.

Where does the programs have to be run.*

Would it be open root shell from the Konsole Terminal program

I assume
'# now doing some cleaning up:
sudo rm -rf libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -rf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz ’

is run after the main command.

Thanks*

#19

I have the same problem.

#20

Any further information would be appreciated.

Thanks*