[ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update

[Rowan Berkeley]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 12:00 +0100, John Matthews <jakewc2 at sky.com>
wrote:
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410
> Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6. That is what I am using,
> and FF worked ok opened, fine. Then after that Firefox window will now
> open, but it fails to completely download the page. I use firefox to
> read the BBC news on its website, now I cannot even open the pages. It
> just stops half way though, and greys out, and I have to force close
> the window. Can somebody help please?
> I have discovered its any page that has a video playback on it. It
> loads part way, then the whole page sort of goes grey, and hangs. I
> have to force quit then. So since the update, its either flash, or
> something like that isnt working. If you want I can take a video, if
> it will work to show you. John

I have had the same problem in the past, and found that stopping and
restarting FlashBlock cleared it. Rowan