[GTALUG] Web Site Locks up FF on Ubuntu

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 09:24:51PM -0400, Howard Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 12:00:46 -0400
> Stephen <stephen-d at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> > FF 46.0.1
> > Ubuntu 14.04
> > 
> > http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-president-clinton-trump-0601-jm-20160531-story.html
> > 
> > I have to do a soft reboot.
> > 
> > This site is handled perfectly by Chromium and cause no problems for FF 
> > on Win 10.
> > 
> > Can others check and report?
> 
>    Firefox 45 on Fedora_22 works fine.  I do not have Flash installed.

I suspect it is the lack of flash that is key to things working well.

Browser lock ups are in my experience almost always caused by flash.

Certainly I see no issue on FF 46.0.1 on Debian sid, without flash
pluging installed.

-- 
Len Sorensen