flash viewer under 64 bit gutsy/firefox goes zombie
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Using the 64 bit AMD Gutsy and firefox 2.0.0.11, and flash-plugin-
The flash plugin has recently become unstable. I'm not sure what happened, maybe one of the updates broke something.
But the way it is now, firefox works on pages with flash animations for a while, 5 minutes to 15 minutes - then the flash animations go blank and the system monitor show "npviewer" as a "Zombie" process.
On a couple occasions, npviewer died in a different way where it was taking 100% of the processor time and I had to kill it myself to make the machine responsive. And on one of those occasions it obviously died while firefox was waiting for it, and firefox blocked with 0 CPU usage - the other time firefox kept working.
If I kill firefox and npviewer and restart it, that usually works for a while. I think I have to specifically kill npviewer - I ended up with a whole bunch of npviewer processes when I didn't.
The problem may be you-tube related, since most of the flash I had going was youtube.
That may also explain why it just started happening - youtube changes their player often, and tries out altered versions for short periods of time.
It may be that they have a new version that crashes... I've had a youtube page up all day, and though it crashed a couple times in the morning, it has been running for hours now without a further crash - youtube may have changed back.