On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:53:25 Dale wrote: > Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: > >> I been working on gathering information for this for a while. I just > >> tried something else. I use the download helper plugin in Firefox to > >> download videos. Also, it crashes when I am downloading videos but > >> that > >> is about all I use Firefox for. I had a light bulb moment and decided > >> to see if the same plugin was available for Seamonkey. It was > >> available > >> so I installed it. It works the same as in Firefox. So, I closed as > >> much stuff as I could and started downloading a couple good size > >> videos. After a few minutes, you guessed it, kernel panic followed by > >> a > >> reboot. To make sure it was not a fluke or something, I repeated the > >> process and got the same result. > > > > Dale, > > > > I would suspect the download-helper-plugin as that is common in both the > > Firefox and Seamonkey crashes. > > Can you provide a link to the plugin you use to allow others to test > > this to see if it works for them? > > I'm not sure you are right but it is possible. Here is a linky: > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/seamonkey/addon/video-downloadhelper/
Looks nice, actually. Even calls "ffmpeg" to convert the videos to different formats. Will try it this week and will see if it causes issues for me. > It's pretty straight forward. I can get a failure by going to youtube > and starting the download of two or three fairly long movies. I usually > middle click and open the video in a new tab. Then start the download > and close the tab. I usually walk off or watch TV while it downloads. > I have the slow DSL here so it takes a bit to download but it usually > crashes in a minute or two. Firefox crashes faster but Seamonkey only > takes a couple minutes or something. In a new tab, that could be part of it. Do you also get it if you use a single tab? Eg. open video, start download, then wait? > If anyone tests this, let me know if it messes up. I'm on amd64 > multilib too. That may have some effect. Same here, so should be an interesting test. I also use the nvidia-drivers and KDE4, so we're pretty close with the installed/used software. -- Joost
