On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > So how do I tell what's wrong? I have a laptop > that is less than half a year old, a clean > Ubuntu Linux 9.10 install and the included > Firefox 3.5.8 browser. This should work, but > these two videos never play more than two seconds > and after a while my CPU fan spins up, firefox > runs 100%, and all I can do is a "kill -9", > which kills any other work I had going in other > browser windows and tabs.
You aren't running in a virtual machine are you? Linux+VM is known as a source of playback problems for firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526080 Otherwise, it's pretty likely you're hitting https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496147 (or another on of several closely related linux audio specific bugs which are various degrees of fixed in the latest firefox development). I believe that disabling pulseaudio will work around this collection of issues on ubuntu. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Tei <[email protected]> wrote: > Uh.. buffer overflow errors, complex file format loaders in > programming languages like C.... Or false assumptions about memory > management with poor detection error and fatal consecuences. Maybe > even bad program intercomunication. ... > The internet was built on text based protocols to avoid these problems > or help debug then. Ironic that you say that... the variable length null terminated string is probably the worst thing to ever happen to computer security. Text does imply a degree of transparency, but it's not security cure-all. In any case, video and audio are in the same boat as Jpeg/png, +/- some differences in software maturity. There aren't any known or expected malware vectors for them. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
