Opera Crash leaves me a little uneasy

[Wade Smart]

Bret Busby wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Wade Smart wrote:
> 
>> 20090221 1003 GMT-5
>>
>> About ten minutes ago I was on a news site. I had clicked on a link but
>> nothing was happening. I waited and waiting; stopped the link and
>> reloaded - nothing. Then all the tabs I had up were doing the same
>> thing. I turned off the browser and restarted. First thing that popped
>> up was a error box stating where to find plugins. Apparently it didnt
>> know where any where. I click browse to where the plugins were. The
>> browser start but lost all my pages it usually saves upon restart.
>>
>> Even though I have shown it where the three locations are for plugins -
>> opera, mozilla and flash non free, I cant play flash or audio files.
>>
>> I have since noticed a few other problems: first, all pages load very
>> slow - if at all - though they do load in FF. When it is loading a page,
>> my entire system gets slow. I had the window manager open navigating to
>> the location where the plugins are and it was running very very slow.
>>
>> Because I have had several other problems lately this has really got me
>> feeling a bit scared --- that my system has totally become unstable.
>>
>> Wade
>>
>>
> 
> The link wasn't to a PDF file, was it?
> 
> In the last 24 hours, I have receivd a CERT advisory regarding PDF files 
> and Adobe Reader, and malicious code.
> 
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> Bret Busby
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> 

20090221 1021 GMT-5

No. It was a link to a article within the news site.
Now, the area that I clicked on was a flash app so maybe that had 
something to do with it.

Wade
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