2006/3/28, Eugen Leitl <eugen leitl org>:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:52:30PM -0800, Danny Ciarniello wrote:
A thought just occured to me. I am using a dual core Athlon 64. I
wonder if firefox is having some SMP problems?
No, that bug occurs on single-core AMD64s, too.
I was suspecting a malfunctioning extension.
It's good to learn the problem can be fixed by
reverting to 32-bit Firefox. The bug has driven me
to drink, and my wife to XP/OS X.
The bug in itsself are the non free browser plugins :). Reverting to
32 bit browser is a workaround not a fix cause the plugins are non
free and therefor one has to wait until some companys manage to build
64 bit versions of their plugins (if ever.)
regards,
Rudolf Kastl
p.s. i just drop crap like flash and am happily using a 64 bit only os
with only free components... a 32 bit browser pulls in 32 bit libs
which eats up extra ram...