Opera Crash leaves me a little uneasy

[Wade Smart]

Bret Busby wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Wade Smart wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bret Busby
>>> Armadale
>>> West Australia
>>> ..............
>>>
>>> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>>>   you'll know what the answer means."
>>> - Deep Thought,
>>>    Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>>>    "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>>>    A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>>>    written by Douglas Adams,
>>>    published by Pan Books, 1992
>>>
>>> ....................................................
>>>
>> 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
>>
> 
> Ah.
> 
> Can't help you there, sorry.
> 
> I avoid flash, like the plague.
> 
> Too many past CERT advisories. Risky stuff.
> 
> Maybe you have found a new "vulnerability"?
> 
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
> 
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>   you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
>    Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>    "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>    A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>    written by Douglas Adams,
>    published by Pan Books, 1992
> 
> ....................................................
> 

20090221 1048 GMT-5

I did notice that on FF with boinc turned off that my cpu usage hadnt
dropped. I think the page was constantly reloading to add new news
updates and it just chews up resources. I dumped opera cache and that
seems to have fixed problems.

Wade

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