On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 04:18 -0400, Sean Conner wrote: > It was thus said that the Great Jonathan Stowe once stated: > > > > On a previous laptop, unloading the ALSA drivers would cause firefox to > > crash, it appears that for some reason it was linked with the ALSA > > library EVEN THOUGH IT COULD NOT AND IS NOT DESIGNED TO MAKE SOUND BY > > ITSELF. > > Ah, did Firefox just freeze, or did it crash, causing the window to > disappear?
No, real crashy window go away stuff. > On my Linux system, Firefox will sometimes freeze if I try to > play a Flash-based video, and at first, I thought it just crashed and would > have to grovel through the process list and kill -9 the dozen or so Firefox > processes, but soon came to realize it was just waiting for some lock or > something and would eventually play. Oh yes Flash based media players are another source of hate. Yesterday I opened an "audacity" (open source multitrack audio editor) project and it claimed that it couldn't open the playback device, checking the configuration LO AND BEHOLD there were no audio devices available in the drop down. To cut a long tale involving strace and fuser short it appeared that the flash player (or the 32->64bit shim thing that is necessary because no twat feels it necessary to provide a 64bit flash plugin) had gone titsup locking the audio device somehow AND HADN'T GONE AWAY WHEN I CLOSED FIREFOX. WHY DO I USE THIS GODDAM HIPPY OPERATING SYSTEM! /J\ -- The pink crack cherubs made me do it
