firefox + vmplayer problem

[Dotan Cohen]

On 24/10/06, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:
> Hello,
> 2 problems that keep haunting me on 6.06:
> firefox hangs the system for several minutes when closing it. Its window
> remains unresponsive during this time an dthe processor is up to 100% so
> that I cannot even run the process monitor or switch to a virtual desktop to
> run top. I already removed all extensions (used without a problem on pre 1.5
> releases of firefox) but invain. Most of the time the system comes back, but
> there have been several occasions that I had to reforce a cold boot.
> yesterday I installed vmplayer from the repo. When runnin git, I get th
> emessage that vmnet module is not present. How to resolve that?
>
> Thanks,
>

Lets take the problems one at a time. First, don't post to the list in
HTML. If you don't know what that means, then tell me what email
client you use and I'll show you how to disable it.

What version of Firefox are you using? Should I assume that it is 1.5
by your mentioning pre-1.5 usage? You might want to upgrade to the
latest 1.5.0.7, which is a bugfix over 1.5. Or, if your extensions
have been properly updated, you could try version 2.0. Upgrade to
either of these, try them, and report back.

Dotan Cohen

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