konqueror and firefox freeze when closing a tab with a flash animation

[Asraniel]

When i open a page that contains a flash animation in konqueror (youtube etc) and i close the tab in which the animation was,konqueror freezes.
I cant guarante that this happens everytime, but for sure most of the time.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 14 12:28:54 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux kubuntu-w 2.6.20-10-generic #2 SMP Mon Mar 12 00:02:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

probably a problem with flash, which we cant fix.

[Asraniel (asraniel)]

the problem wasnt here in edgy. anyway, i don think feisty can go on any desktop out there with that bug, i mean, imagine a normal user that uses konqueror, and everytime he closes a homepage with a flash video, konqueror freezes

[Yves Glodt (yglodt)]

I can reproduce this in edgy, with the KDE 3.5.6 packages from jriddell.
It seems not to happen when closing the tab with the close-tab-button.

[Tom Shaw (firephoto)]

Same thing here, happens randomly with mostly video flash pages like youtube. It happens from just going to a different page from a bookmark, or from closing the tab, probably some other scenarios too. It freezes konqueror so you can't use it, but by killing nspluginviewer konqueror continues on to the page you were going to or closes the tab and works normally.

[Waldemar Silva Júnior (wsjunior)]

Confirmed here too. It happens randomly. Tested with latest version of konqueror and flashplugin-nonfree. 3.5.6-0ubuntu17 and 9.0.31.0.2ubuntu1 respectively.

[Ronald Allan B. Henry (ronniemcronface)]

Confirmed this from Edgy and Feisty.

As Sarah Hobbs mentioned, this might be a problem with the flash plugin.
The same lockup occurs from within Firefox.

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Assign this report to flashplugin-nonfree package, since it seems the cause of the problem

[Premier (premiersullivan)]

In my expirence, it not only freezes konqueror, but it causes the entire system to become unresponsive and uses 100% cpu. It may be flash's fault, but we should make sure that a program like flash cannot hog the entire system like that.

[Ben Epstein (superbenny)]

Premier wrote:
> In my expirence, it not only freezes konqueror, but it causes the entire
> system to become unresponsive and uses 100% cpu. It may be flash's
> fault, but we should make sure that a program like flash cannot hog the
> entire system like that.
>
>
confirmed here. kubuntu 7.04 beta.

[cies (cies-breijs)]

confirmed here: both in firefox and konqueror.
on Kubuntu 7.04 with flash9.

i did read that zack (of KDE and Qt fame) is working on a shell over these buggy/binary/close-source/proprietary plugins so they can no long crash their host apps. you can read it yourself here:
http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2007/05/browser-plugins.html

[lefty.crupps (eljefedelito)]

confirmed here also, 7.04herd5, fully patched as of today (29 May 07) and this also happens on my home computer (7.04 final) and also both with Firefox and Konqueror, and also randomly. Here is the site that finally made me look to report it (this one was with Firefox):
http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/kde-plasmasuperkaramba-kalzium-kwin-webkit-krita-and-the-general-state/

Thanks!

[cutlerite (cutlerite)]

confirmed here too.

[Premier (premiersullivan)]

Appears fixed in gutsy, fully updated as of today, but maybe I just haven't rediscovered it yet. Fingers Crossed.

[zach (zachdbrennan91)]

i've been using feisty with firefox for a few months now and i've had no problem at all with it freezing, what are the details on your computer, graphics card, cpu speed, memory?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

This is a Gutsy issue, so you wouldn't have seen it in Feisty.

[jwlockhart (jwl-andlovesaidno)]

get the same thing here, using 7.04 with all the current patches, though i find it happens more often with firefox than konqueror, and mainly on sites like youtube or myspace (which my wife uses to keep track of friends)

[cutlerite (cutlerite)]

well then I am having similar issues. when I try and go to another tab, firefox freezes. This only happens when i'm watching video playback through youtube or any other flash video website. That was the closest bug I could find.

----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Kitterman <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 6:59:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Bug 92207] Re: konqueror and firefox freeze when closing a tab with a flash animation

This is a Gutsy issue, so you wouldn't have seen it in Feisty.

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[cutlerite (cutlerite)]

Compaq presario SR2039X
AMD 64 Athalon 3700+
NVIDIA G Force 6150 LE
1 gig of Ram.
Feisty
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty)

I think that pretty much covers anything you need to know....
Let me know if something looks fishy, or if you know of any similar bugs. Someone just emailed me and said it was a gutsy issue..... but somehow I am experiencing firefox freezing, only when I try and watch videos...

I'm a newbie to linux, so i really don't know how everything works.

Thanks.
_Trent

----- Original Message ----
From: zach <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 6:44:51 AM
Subject: [Bug 92207] Re: konqueror and firefox freeze when closing a tab with a flash animation

i've been using feisty with firefox for a few months now and i've had no
problem at all with it freezing, what are the details on your computer,
graphics card, cpu speed, memory?

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[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Upon further review, I take it back. This bug started in Feisty. I was thinking of a different one. Sorry.

[arno_b (arno.b)]

Confirmed here too on Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10, firefox and an ATI card.

[Kato (temp2-emails)]

Similar problem (videos go funky and browser becomes unresponsive) in Ubuntu 7.10, Firefox 2.0.0.10 and Flash 9.

[Markus Kienast (elias1884)]

This is a dublicate of Bug #84844.

Also this has happened ever since Feisty.

This URL is a pretty save bet, that firefox will freeze: http://www.strato.de/server/index.html

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Could anyone confirm this still exists using Jaunty Jackalope, 9.04 development version. It is using Firefox 3.0.7 as of 2009-03-05. I attempted to reproduce this using a P3, 866MHz cpu with 512MB ram. I could not reproduce this bug.

The bug should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Jaunty Jackalope. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. Thanks in advance.

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

I am running a Jaunty system, fully updated, and every time I close a window containing a Flash video, Firefox crashes.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Setting to confirmed based on above comments. If this is an issue in flash, we can't fix it as noted in Comments #1. Thanks for helping.

[Eugene (varnav)]

I have same problem with Firefox 3.0.10 for Windows XP and Flash 10.0 r22
Firefox freezes for minute or two after I close tab with flash.

I think this is a flash bug.

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

I also have this problem with Karmic with latest updates.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Your Ubuntu versions are EOL. Can you please test this with a supported Ubuntu version, at best I suggest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Thank you for helping us.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]