Apparently, though unproven, at 10:49 on Thursday 02 June 2011, András Csányi did opine thusly:
> Hi All, > > Something strange happen here. I have seen few things in Linux world > but this is very new for me! > > I have this fantastic browser called Chromium (12.0.742.68) and I > really like it. But, sometimes, when I see flash videos on different > sites (youtube, cnn, bbc) the whole chromium become frozen and basicly > impossible to kill it. (The comfortable way is left click on the > taskbar and choose "Close" and KDE takes care of to kill the > application. ) I'm aware of I'm using Linux and the Linux desktop and > the flash are not the best friends ever. So my usual activity if my > browser become frozen by flash is the next: (1), start a konsole, (2), > start htop, (3) and kill the process, (4) restart the browser, (5) > happy. [snip] > While I wrote this letter Chromium become crazy again - thanks the > automatic save few words has lost this letter - and I know that the > root cause the Chromium itself and the flash isn't matter. Flash just > make faster that process when Chromium become crazy. No, you are probably wrong here. Chromium is not the problem, Flash is the problem. Flash is a piece of shit that has never worked right and Adobe are a bunch of fools that cannot code properly or securely. I can comfortably say this based on long hard bitter experience by the entire Linux community. If you choose to use Flash, you get to put up with the resulting problems. > My plan is the next: > - rebuild my whole system because it's necessary. This is a very fresh > install and gcc has changed. > - step back to earlier version of chromium > - try to reproduce this error with another browser > - pray to God :) > - switch off the computer and read The Wheel of Time series from > Robert Jordan :) Waste of time, won't fix anything. Flash is a bundled binary and recompiling world will not recompile Flash. Adobe fixing Flash is what will fix Flash. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
