Firefox locking with YouTube

[Bart Silverstrim]

Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 
>>
>> Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>>> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anyone been seeing this behavior recently, or know how to try
>>>> troubleshooting it?
>>>>
>>>> When I go to Youtube.com and click 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", <<
> <snip>
>>> Hi Bart,
>>> I just tried Youtube and no problems either loading the page or playing
>>> the videos. I'm using FF 2.0.0.4. Have you checked your Flashplayer
>>> plugin. Does it work ok on other sites?
>> I'm also using 2.0.0.4.  I didn't check the Flash plugin, but did try
>> installing the flashplugin-nonfree after it started happening but either
>> FF isn't using it or it isn't solving the issue.
>>
>> What website should I try using to test it, if you know another one that
>> is working for you that I could also try?
> Hi Bart,
> You can try this one which also uses Flash.
> http://www.e-noticies.com/
> It's in Catalan but you can still test if the page freezes FF or if the
> flashplayer works.
> As you might expect, Adobe has a bunch of links to showcase its product. You
> can go here:
> http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&industryid=10&loc=en_us
> and try the various sites in the interactive content section.

Thanks to everyone for suggestions.

I kept trying to troubleshoot this issue (using lsof, etc.) but nothing 
was showing up as "abnormal" to me.  I then tried a logoff and the 
window manager hung.  I cntl-alt-bck killed the window manager back to 
the login prompt, but then it wouldn't let me log back in (locked at a 
blank desktop).  Tried another killing of the window manager and it 
locked up again, tight.

Hrm....

Rebooted, had to re-run my NVIDIA driver installer (usually have to do 
that with new kernels, but I didn't upgrade that since my last 
re-install), and restart again and X came right up and let me log in and 
then YouTube started running fine.

There were no hung processes, no system load highs due to looped 
processes, nothing.  Just plain "weird" behavior.  I had become so 
accustomed to Ubuntu being relatively stable that I didn't try the 
Windows troubleshooting task of rebooting...I usually had a logical 
reason for why something was acting "off" on Linux and could solve it 
without a reboot (or hard system hang!).

Again, thanks for all the advice that people offered, and I really wish 
I had an explanation of what just happened on my system so I didn't have 
to sit and wonder this whole time what went wrong :-/

-Bart