[Bug 672109] Re: Loading www.yamana.com freezes Firefox and Linux. Reboot required

[RedSingularity]

Thanks for taking the time to report this!

I can confirm this bug.  Seems that the flash plugin is what causes the
crash by using all available RAM.

apt-cache policy firefox for my machine:
  Installed: 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Candidate: 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages


** Package changed: firefox (Ubuntu) => adobe-flashplugin (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: adobe-flashplugin (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: firefox
  
  Trying to load the following website: http://www.yamana.com/ freezes
  firefox, X and the whole OS. A hard reboot is required afterwards, since
  not even network access is available. I don't know how to debug this
  problem, since everything is frozen as soon as the pages starts to load
- in Firefox. Any advice on how to procceed would be very welcome.
+ in Firefox. Any advice on how to proceed would be very welcome.
+ 
+ To reproduce:  Just go to the stated website with adobe flashplugin
+ installed.  System will severely slow down if not stop all together.
  
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
  Release:	10.04
  Codename:	lucid
  
  $ apt-cache policy firefox
  firefox:
-   Installed: 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
-   Candidate: 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
-   Version table:
-  *** 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
-         500 http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
-         500 http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
-         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
-      3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
-         500 http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
+   Installed: 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
+   Candidate: 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
+   Version table:
+  *** 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
+         500 http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
+         500 http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+      3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
+         500 http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

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Loading www.yamana.com freezes Firefox and Linux. Reboot required
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