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Jim Strathmeyer said the following, on 10-01-05 20:02:
Snip... How about Adobe deciding they can audit your PDF use, without permission? I was outraged (like others, apparently) Adobe (who IIRC bought Macromedia and its Flash "technology" not long ago) put spyware...
I have seen this happen occasionally with sites that make heavy use of Flash. It doesn't happen with all Flash sites, just some of them. My suspicion is that perhaps the common thread is the use of some Flash feature that exercises either a bug in the Flash plugin, or some interaction bug with Firefox itself.
In any case, it's worth trying things without the Flash plugin. You can disable it easily by shutting down Firefox, renaming two files in the 'plugins' subdirectory of your Firefox install directory, and then restarting Firefox. The files are 'flashplayer.xpt' and 'libflashplayer.so'. In the following example, I've inserted a '-' (hyphen) into the names:
total 2084 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 24 15:46 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Sep 24 15:42 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 856 Sep 24 15:45 flashplayer.-xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2096844 Sep 24 15:44 libflashplayer.-so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18840 Sep 24 15:44 libnullplugin.so additional plugins snipped
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:18:55 +0200, Mark South staggered into the Black Sun and said: Yes...
I found that disabling Flash eliminated "freeze-ups" and also most browser crashes.
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