Flash player works only for a while

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Tom Metro <tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org>:

> Theodore Ruegsegger wrote:
>> I'm running 32-bit on both machines where I've observed the problem.
>>
>> I can't find any such process with ps; perhaps that's just for 
>> 64-bit systems.
>
> Yes, it is, and I guess npviewer.bin is just a red herring as far as the
> symptom you're observing. In a way it is unfortunate you aren't running
> a 64-bit OS, as the npviewer.bin wrapper process provides a convenient
> way of killing off the Flash resource hog and resetting it when it
> misbehaves without disrupting the running Firefox.
>
> I'd still recommend using that file name as a search term to uncover
> discussion and bug reports that are more relevant to the symptom you're
> observing. I'd also recommend browsing through Ubuntu's Launchpad bug
> tracker for bugs filed against Flash.

FYI, it's not just on Ubuntu.  I see this on Fedora.  Still 32-bit.
I do have npviewer (and the nswrapper) installed.  I've pretty much given
up on watching YouTube online so I just download the videos I care
about and watch them using mplayer.

>  -Tom

-derek

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