Comment 105 for bug 127944

I have 4 users (family) on my home machine - the other 3 use kde.
Almost every day the machine (3GHz core 2 duo) comes to a crawl
when 2 or more nspluginviewer processes
(presumably started by konqueror) use up all cpu time.

Similar problems have been reported by many since July 2007.
The solution seems to be known since August 2007
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294385
Now the discussion seems to have ended ...

I am certainly happy that the solution is known,
but I would be nice if it also got implemented (in gutsy).
It does not help just to hear that bug X is a duplicate of bug Y.

I have been killing nspluginviewer processes for months now,
but I am not always around when this is necessary,
and my family is getting frustrated.
(To be honest, even more frustration comes from another bug,
presumably in the nvidia driver used in gutsy,
where the screen just goes black, periodically, for several minutes.)

What am I supposed to do?
Until 5 Months ago, on the previous machine, I used Debian unstable
(for several years, after many years of using Slackware).
I never had to suffer that long from any bug
before a package became available that fixed it.

If the answer is to wait each time for a new release of Ubuntu,
then I would switch back to Debian.
Another answer may be to finally get rid of kde.
(Most problems that I have encountered lately
are due to bad behavior of kde in multi-user environments.)

I am open to good suggestions.