[gentoo-user] Firefox/mplayer hang

[gentoo-user] Firefox/mplayer hang

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   Does anyone else have the problem where you go to some link in
Firefox that is going ot play an mp3/ogg/whatever and then when either
you don't want to continue or maybe when the site doesn't respond, you
decide to hit the back arrow, and at that point Firefox and mplayer
seem hung and the only way out is to kill them from a terminal.

   I see this a lot. wondering how to file a bug. Seems a bit hard to
debug as a user.

thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/mplayer hang

[Tero Grundström]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Mark Knecht wrote:

> Hi,
>    Does anyone else have the problem where you go to some link in
> Firefox that is going ot play an mp3/ogg/whatever and then when either
> you don't want to continue or maybe when the site doesn't respond, you
> decide to hit the back arrow, and at that point Firefox and mplayer
> seem hung and the only way out is to kill them from a terminal.

You mean Firefox with mplayerplug-in hangs? This is a known problem with
mplayerplug-in. According to what I've read, it is fixed in version 2.70.

Haven't upgraded to it myself yet, as it now requires you to compile
Gecko-SDK as well. That means you'll have to compile whole mozilla just
to use this plug-in...

See this bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50822

and this forum topic:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=261049&highlight=geckosdk

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