npviewer.bin seems to be killing my system

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sun Nov 25 12:26:18 UTC 2007


On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Sander Hoentjen wrote:

>
> On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 01:27 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> > p.s.  firefox, in general, has been impressing me less and less as
> > time has gone by.  after i finally killed it above, once again, it
> > left a youtube image embedded firmly in my desktop, which could
> > only be cleared by logging out of X entirely.
> >
> > i think it's finally time to switch browsers.
>
> Or try to remove nspluginwrapper or not use the flash plugin, which
> seems to be the reason for a lot of performance problems as well. It
> is also the flash plugin (maybe in combination with nspluginwrapper)
> that was the reason for the youtube image, you could have removed it
> by killing npviewer.bin

good point, i'll look at that.  in any event, something has to go --
i'm getting thoroughly tired of firefox and its friends crippling my
system on a regular basis.

rday


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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

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