[OT]: YouTube causing system lockups

[JoeHill]

Scott Elcomb wrote: 

> In the fallout of my failed HDD a few weeks ago I installed PCLinuxOS
> and have started giving KDE a bit of a try.
> 
> All's well and good so far but as of yesterday I'm having some trouble
> with YouTube.  It was working fine but now - all of a sudden like - it
> regularly causing my entire machine to lock up.  I can't change to
> virtual terminals (1-4) or even shutdown X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).
> 
> Any ideas what might be causing this behavior?  I've heard that Google
> may have been working on something at YouTube yesterday around
> 18:00PDT but I don't know what they were up to or if there's any
> relation.

Check your Flash version, I've noticed that very new betas can be _very_
unstable.

-- 
JoeHill
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