Firefox disasters

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 20:01 +0100, Martin Kho wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 November 2009 19:45:45 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 18:49 +0100, Martin Kho wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately I've never managed to get Chromium to connect to any
> > >
> > > web
> > >
> > > > site, even its own help page. I keep it up to date via the repo, but
> > >
> > > no
> > >
> > > > version has ever worked for me. It just sits there with a spinning
> > > > cursor and the message "Connecting ..." in the lower left corner.
> > > >
> > > > Fedora 11 fully updated, 64-bit.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > That's strange. I use it on both FC11 and FC12 x86_64. Current build
> > > is 4.0.227.0. It can even show Google Wave and is usable :-)
> > 
> > Same here. I've no idea why this happens. Are you also using it with
> > KDE?

[...]

> Yes. Are you using nspluginwrapper for flash etc? I had always troubles with 
> this wrapper (high cpu usage, memory leaks and crashes) so I now use the 64-
> bit alpha flash player.

I also use the 64-bit alpha player, besides which I'm not even trying to
visit a Flash site.

poc