firefox + vmplayer problem

[Dotan Cohen]

On 27/10/06, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:
> On Friday 27 October 2006 17:30, you 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.
>
> Sorry for the html-mail. I use kmail normally, this one should be polain text
> (disabled the html formatting option). Tx for pointing out.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> The problem started with the latest 1.5.0.7 release and I switched to v2.O to
> find out whether the problem would persist. Unfortenately it does. The
> extensions I have installed are: adblock plus, custom buttons, DOM inspector,
> DownThemAll, Flashgot, Google Calendar notifier and NoScript. I use the Noia
> 2.0 (eXtreme) theme.
>
> Tx for helping

I stoped using themes because I realised that they, for some reason,
make Fx slow. Did you try without the theme?

Dotan Cohen

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