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Using Suse 11.1 KDE3.5 64bit and Firefox causes the CPU to get hot and cause cooling. Output from top

0 73164 21m 8404 R 122%CPU 2.2% Memory 1:45.31 npviewer.bin

If I close firefox, npviewer.bin - closes and the problem solved.

I do not understand why npviewer that uses little CPU when used by Firefox usually, begins to run away. If i close the offending window the CPU usage goes down [on npviewer]. This morning it was Ebay that caused the fans to run!

There does seem to be a link to the sound - alsa
Any ideas?

This does not seem to happen in opera or Konquerer

Thanks

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I think it’s because you are _64 and you use a plugin (nspluginwrapper) to run 32 bit flash.

A solution might be to try the _64 flash
There is a guide here:
Flash Player 10 on 11.1 - Page 3 - openSUSE Forums

Another alternative is installing 32 bit FF (But I wouldn’t)

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Thanks I will go and look.

Regards

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Hi

I have erased the flashplayer and downloaded the new, thus ended up with 2 files

libflashplayer.so and flashplayer-installer

because of permissions Linux will not let me copy them to

  1. Extract the plugin, and place a copy of it in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins

Can you advise? Thanks

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In YAST I have just found

swfdec - A Free Flash Player
swfdec is a free flash player. It is usually embedded into a browser via the swfdec-mozilla package for instance.

Does this sound any good?

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No use .

Copy - You have to be su in the terminal or be using dolphin super user mode

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Hi

I can get into root by su

can you let me know the syntax for these two files. I tried just copying them but nothing happened in Firefox - check with it being added on?

Thanks

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If you use Dolphin wit the Terminal Panel you might find this easier because you can navigate to where the file is that you downloaded - Now in the terminal type** su**
then your password
Now do this:

cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins
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Thanks - that’s very kind of you.

Regards

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Are we to understand the :good: To mean all is well?

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Unfortunately no.

The procedure keeps the processor at maximum even after closing firefox. I had to kill npviewer manually. Also firefox kept locking up. So I reversed the changes.

At least npviewer does not lock up!
it’s mainly on BBC iplayer or Channel 4 4oD

Opera works fine and on all the players ie BBC iplayer

Konqueror did work fine but now says

You need to upgrade Flash to version 9.0.115 or higher to play James May’s Toy Stories: Scalextric.
Upgrade the Flash player now.

So not a success.

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Post result of this

rpm -q nspluginwrapper
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linux-z3dx:/home/brian/Desktop/flash # rpm -q nspluginwrapper
nspluginwrapper-1.2.2-2.1.1

Does this help?

Thanks

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Yes. Delete it. I don’t think you need it if you now have _64 flash

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Just before your message arrived i got this across the screen

Sound server fatal error:
AudioSubSystem::handleIO: write failed
len = -1, can_write = 4096, errno = 2 (No such file or directory)
This might be a sound hardware/driver specific problem (see aRts FAQ)

This must be all combined in some way?

Hopefully?

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Where did this _64 come from? can I check? I reversed the above items on that link?

Thanks

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Please post result of this

uname -a

then

rpm -qa flash-player
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linux-z3dx:/home/ # uname -a
Linux linux-z3dx 2.6.27.37-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-10-15 14:56:58 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

linux-z3dx:/home/ # rpm -qa flash-player
flash-player-10.0.32.18-0.1.1

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OK you are _64 bit

Sorry I need

rpm -qi flash-player
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Hi

Thanks for your help.

linux-z3dx:/home/brian # rpm -qi flash-player
Name : flash-player Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 10.0.32.18 Vendor: openSUSE
Release : 0.1.1 Build Date: Fri 31 Jul 2009 09:40:46 BST
Install Date: Wed 18 Nov 2009 18:38:35 GMT Build Host: deacon
Group : Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers Source RPM: flash-player-10.0.32.18-0.1.1.src.rpm
Size : 19893279 License: Any commercial
Signature : RSA/8, Fri 31 Jul 2009 09:41:00 BST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Packager : Submitting Bug Reports - openSUSE
Summary : Adobe Flash PlugIn and standalone Player
Description :
This package contains Adobe’s Flash Plugin for the supported Web
browsers in addition to a standalone flash player application.

Authors:

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Distribution: openSUSE 11.1