[OT]: YouTube causing system lockups

[JoeHill]

Scott Elcomb wrote: 

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:22 PM, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Check your Flash version, I've noticed that very new betas can be _very_
> > unstable.  
> 
> Here's some relevant info on the system, sorry in advance if some of
> it doesn't format well:
> 
> cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.18.8.tex5 (vaughan at localhost) (gcc version 4.1.1
> 20060724 (prerelease) (4.1.1-4pclos2007)) #1 SMP Thu May 10 11:36:58
> WST 2007
> 
> about:plugins
> Shockwave Flash
> 
>     File name: libflashplayer.so
>     Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31
> 
>     MIME Type                            Description
> Suffixes  Enabled
>     application/x-shockwave-flash  Shockwave Flash      swf        Yes
>     application/futuresplash           FutureSplash Player  spl         Yes
> 
> 
> YouTube was fine for the last few weeks... until yesterday.  I'm not
> sure why it stopped working, but I'm not convinced at this point that
> Flash is the issue.  (I could certainly be wrong, but I'm not terribly
> knowledgeble on Flash... I only use it when I gotsta. ;-)

I don't know that much about it either, only that when I'm having problems it
almost always helps to upgrade or downgrade as the case may be.

I ran into a similar situation to yours at work recently, though without the
hard lockups. One day almost any site with video would immediately crash the
browser. I downloaded the latest Flash 9 (_not_ Flash 10 beta), installed it,
and all was well.

Sites very often start using a newer version of the Flash software without
telling their users, so it's fairly common for a site to work one day and not
the next, at least in my experience.

I would try uninstalling the packaged version of Flash, download the one from
Adobe and just install it to ~/. At least then you can rule out a version
problem and move on.

-- 
JoeHill
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