On 11.03.13 07:31, James Harper wrote:
> Just lately, maybe in the last few months, I've had periodic freezes
> when using google or playing youtube videos.
...
> Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?
TL;DR: There's a (transitory) fix (worked for me on youtube) at the end.
On Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS I've had similar issues for about a year, but more
often on links to ABC and BBC pages. The firefox activity indicator
rotates for a quarter of an hour if I let it. On a good night, hitting
the reload icon interrupts, bringing the page up within a few seconds.
That said, it's stuck on a youtube link now. It has been going for about
ten minutes, and is still on 0:00/2:06. Pausing, then hitting Play,
doesn't help. Reloading the page containing the link to youtube, and
then hitting Play, has now left it spinning fruitlessly for another 5
minutes.
Restarting firefox also does not help - another attempt has now been
spinning its wheel for a good 5 minutes, with zero progress. The ADSL
modem says:
Transmit
Tx PDUs 15544
Tx Total Bytes 1438042
Tx Total Error Counts 0
Receive
Rx PDUs 18250
Rx Total Bytes 20611199
Rx Total Error Counts 0
So I don't think we can blame the line.
The Chase:
Power cycling the ADSL modem still left firefox hung on the previous
page fetch - but subsequently reloading the page, then hitting Play,
started the film clip withing a second.
That's usually what it takes, in extremis. Then things are good for a
while - often the rest of the evening.
Sometimes the problem is loss of DNS, and again, rebooting the
router/modem fixes that every time. (That's a bit more obvious, though.)
Erik
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On the basis of evidence we may be sure that we are wrong
but we can never be sure that we are right. - Richard Feynman
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