Hi, I hardly dare to report this problem as it, let alone the fix, seems quite ridiculous to me. Before filing a bug report I'd like to ask if anyone can reproduce the problem (I see it on two computers running FreeBSD) or tell me what I'm doing wrong. Nevertheless the problem seems reproducible, so here goes.
System information: FreeBSD yeti.mininet 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #1: Mon Aug 28 22:24:48 CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/YETI i386 All packages were rebuilt from the ports about a week ago due to an upgrade of xorg from 6.9 to 7.3 (however, the problem was present before the upgrade as well). The relevant port versions are: firefox-2.0.0.12_1.1 linux-flashplugin-7.0r73 linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_8 The browser plugins directory looks like this after upgrading: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -al /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins total 2202 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 7 23:09 . drwxr-xr-x 86 root wheel 40960 Apr 7 22:53 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 15 12:20 .firefox.keep -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 15 12:58 .mozilla.keep lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Apr 7 22:55 flashplayer.xpt -> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 56 Apr 7 23:16 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 60 Mar 15 12:20 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 59 Aug 27 2006 nppdf.so -> /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so There is one particular site (http://www.heise.de, a German computer news site) which causes firefox to freeze with this setup. Unfortunately the problem appears to be caused by ads that they run, so depending on what ads are scheduled you may not be able to reproduce the bug immediately (try again a day or two later). I haven't found a site yet which consistently shows this bug. Freezing can be suppressed by any of the following manipulations: 1) switch off JavaScript support in the browser settings 2) remove the libflashplayer.so link in the plugins directory 3) and finally the weird one: replace the libflashplayer.so link with the shared object that the link points to, which makes the browser_plugins entry look like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2181284 Apr 7 23:09 libflashplayer.so I was under the impression that symbolic links are handled transparently by the OS, but there seems to be something weird going on here. Any clues? regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"