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Firefox hangs in ubuntu - xkill / process manager what's best ?

  • 29-10-2007 03:06PM
    #1
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    firefox hangs in ubuntu , usually on some crappy bebo type sites
    now on 7.10 clean install, happened on 7.04 too
    until I can figure out what's doing it what his the best way to kill threads or processes ?
    In beryl I can assign ctrl-alt-del to xkill , how do I do this in gnome or kde ?


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  • #2
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,519 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Are you on 64-bit? Flash Player isn't too friendly on 64-bit Linux. Otherwise, upgrading the 2.0.0.8 might fix the problem.

    Regarding killing Firefox, I usually do "ps -A" and then "kill ABCD" [as root], where ABCD is the PID.


  • #3
    djmarkus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭djmarkus


    It usually flash, one way to save firefox is to kill the flash child process, which seems to save FF in my experience.

    ps -ef | grep libflashplayer.so

    if you kill that process firefox should spring back to life.

    kill -9 might be required.


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