Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] videos that won't go away.
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 03:20:51
Message-Id: 4DC21730.4030705@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] videos that won't go away. by Adam Carter
1 Adam Carter wrote:
2 > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com
3 > <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
4 >
5 > Hi folks,
6 >
7 > I noticed something weird but I'm not sure what to even search for
8 > to get a fix. When I play a video with Seamonkey or Firefox, then
9 > close the tab or close the browser, the video is still there.
10 >
11 >
12 > I've had a lot of trouble with flash recently, especially with it
13 > killing sound (using ~amd64 for the flash player due to the constant
14 > security issues, most of the system is amd64).
15 >
16 > Try killing flash so it restarts to see if that helps get things
17 > working. Sometimes my system needs a full reboot - even restarting X
18 > doesnt help.
19
20 The one thing I didn't think of to try. How silly of me. lol
21
22 One thing I just noticed, it doesn't always do this. I went back to a
23 link that did it just before I posted and it worked fine this time. So,
24 this appears to be a intermittent problem which opens a new can of
25 worms. We all know how hard it is to fix those.
26
27 I'll try killing flash next time it does it and see what that does.
28
29 Dale
30
31 :-) :-)

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