[Bug 84844] Re: firefox freezes in feisty herd 3

[Mike Hicks]

I've been having problems with this for a while now.  I thought it
seemed to go away either just before Ubuntu 9.04 came out, or briefly
after the upgrade, but it's back with a vengeance.  I had also switched
system chassis lately -- originally I'd been running a Dell PowerEdge
600SC, which did not have any sound device in it, and I've now switched
to a Dell OptiPlex GX280, which uses the snd-intel8x0 driver from ALSA.

Currently, I'm having trouble with some pages on the New York Times
website (http://nytimes.com/), and with pages on Minnesota Public
Radio's sites which have a small audio player.  What's notable about the
MPR player is that the player itself goes fubar shortly after it loads
-- there's a little ">" play button that appears momentarily, then goes
away.  Then when I either close the tab or try to navigate away, the
browser goes to 100% CPU usage and it must be killed.  Here's an example
page:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2009/06
/coleman-franken_the_reaction.shtml

This system can normally play YouTube videos just fine, though I have
occasionally had problems in the past if I closed a window while a
YouTube video was still playing.

I had been blaming PulseAudio for causing this, considering that the
pulseaudio daemon would still start on my old system with its soundcard-
less motherboard, but I've done what I can to disable PulseAudio on this
newer box and it still seems to occur.

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firefox freezes in feisty herd 3
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84844
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