Firefox freezes for a few seconds

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gpatrick

After having problems with OpenSolaris, I've reinstalled with FreeBSD 8.0 and there are times when I'm browsing a website it will freeze. The tab will saying loading and the graphic with the turning circles freezes along with the browser. The only thing I can do is kill Firefox.

When Firefox is restarted it brings up the page that it was frozen on and continues to work fine. When I click on another page in the lower left corner it says transferring from graytv.adclick.com and sometimes freezes. It's a local television's news website. Doesn't seem to freeze on cnn.com or foxnews.com or other sites, but the local news it does.

Any ideas?
 
Next time that happens, try running pkill npviewer.bin from a command-line or Run... dialog. If that fixes it, then it's actually the Flash process that's "freezing", not Firefox itself.
 
Thank you!

pkill npviewer.bin did indeed work.

Next question. If it's the flash process, what, if anything, can be done? I'm using linux-f10-flashplugin-10 from the ports.
 
Use [cmd=]killall npviewer.bin[/cmd]. Better yet, map it to a keyboard shortcut, so you can do it on the fly.
 
pkill is the same as killall, but more portable (killall on Solaris, for example, kills every process in the system without warning).
 
DutchDaemon said:
Use [cmd=]killall npviewer.bin[/cmd]. Better yet, map it to a keyboard shortcut, so you can do it on the fly.
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I think he meant what he meant is the freebsd-linux code for firefox plugins needs to be fixed. I have also noticed these freezes and would like the devs to at least open a bug ticket.
 
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