Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around

[Alexandre L.]

Here the link to this workaround by DutchDaemon : 
http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=67155&postcount=15

--- En date de : Mar 23.3.10, Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine at gmail.com> a écrit :

> De: Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine at gmail.com>
> Objet: Re: Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around
> À: "Steve Franks" <bahamasfranks at gmail.com>
> Cc: yuri at rawbw.com, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Mardi 23 mars 2010, 8h36
> On Mon,22-03-2010 [17:41:16], Steve
> Franks wrote:
> > /usr/ports/www/xpi-noscript is another option, not
> without caveats...
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com>
> wrote:
> > > Sometimes after some flash object is displayed
> firefox gets frozen for many
> > > few seconds,maybe ~20sec.
> > > Do you see the same? Is there anyfix for this?
> > >
> > > In additions I have 54 processes like this one
> > > 50006  ??  I      0:00.00
> > >
> /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin
> --plugin
> > >
> /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> --connection
> > > hanging around even after firefox process exits.
> > >
> > > linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r45
> > > nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_5
> > > firefox-3.5.8,1
> > >
> > > Yuri
> 
> Hi!
> 
> There was a workaround for this issue published by
> DutchDaemon on forums.freebsd.org. 
> I'm too lazy today to seek for that thread, sorry :) 
> What he suggested is a simple cronjob script intended to
> constantly check process list and 
> kill any single remaining proccess of npviewer.bin
> It works, but you should check every minute or so.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Jeff
> 
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