[ale] Firefox periodically needs restarting

[Jim Popovitch]

On Jan 6, 2008 4:48 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> Jim Philips wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 January 2008 01:54:41 pm Jim Lynch wrote:
> >
> > Firefox 3 is supposed to address most of the memory leak issues. I've
> had good
> > luck with 3.0b2 so far. I haven't left it up for days, though. I think
> it
> > crashed on me several times while running YouTube videos. At any rate,
> I'm
> > finding this version to be very stable already. If it were compatible
> with
> > all of my add-ons, I would be using it all of the time.
> >
>
> My Firefox crashes are almost always caused by Flash. I tired Gnash but
> it isn't yet compatible with much flash in the wild. Upgrading to
> Adobe's 9,0,115,0 has improved the situation. I'm waiting on
> compatibility with the del.icio.us addon before trying FF3.


Just as an FYI.....

I saw much improvement in Flash via Firefox by setting "FIREFOX_DSP=aoss" in
/etc/firefox/firefoxrc.  Make sure you also install alsaplayer-oss (or
whatever your distro calls it)

-Jim P.
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