Firefox locking with YouTube

[Matthew Clarke]

I posted about this very issue last week.  It is a problem for me as well...

Someone told me to have a look at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/104470
which explains the problem.

the upshot is that it's a fairly nasty bug that's been fixed in the
newest kernels.

the workaround for now is to open a browser, run a video, pause it,
hide it away and never close the window.  Apparently any new browsers
will not hang/crash as long as the background one is still running.

Cheers,
MC

On 7/3/07, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
> Has anyone been seeing this behavior recently, or know how to try
> troubleshooting it?
>
> When I go to Youtube.com andlick a video to play, Firefox starts
> rendering the webpage, and when it starts retrieving the video link to
> play it FF dims and "locks up", and I have to force quit Firefox.  I can
> still minimize it and move the window around and use other applications
> but FF is dead until I relaunch it (and don't restore the session to
> play the video, unless I quickly close the offending tab before it has a
> chance to try bringing up the video link).
>
> Could a recent update have caused this, and is anyone else seeing this
> issue?
>
> -Bart
>
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Matthew Clarke