[OT]: YouTube causing system lockups

Scott Elcomb psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 25 17:12:28 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:08 PM, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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 Sites very often start using a newer version of the Flash software without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.

Alrighty.  That'll likely have to wait until after the weekend, since
I'm on nights until Sunday, but I'll give it a shot.  Thx for the
help!

- Scott.


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