[GTALUG] Web Site Locks up FF on Ubuntu

Stephen stephen-d at rogers.com
Thu Jun 2 16:46:14 EDT 2016


On 16-06-02 04:17 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
>
A number of people have suggested Flash as the problem. I have 
deactivated and will report in a few days.

-- 
Stephen


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