Re: [gentoo-user] videos that won't go away.

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Wednesday 04 May 2011 22:19:12 Dale wrote:
> Adam Carter wrote:
> > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com
> >
> > <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
> >     Hi folks,
> >
> >     I noticed something weird but I'm not sure what to even search
> >     for
> >     to get a fix.  When I play a video with Seamonkey or Firefox,
> >     then
> >     close the tab or close the browser, the video is still there.
> >
> > I've had a lot of trouble with flash recently, especially with it
> > killing sound (using ~amd64 for the flash player due to the constant
> > security issues, most of the system is amd64).
> >
> > Try killing flash so it restarts to see if that helps get things
> > working. Sometimes my system needs a full reboot - even restarting X
> > doesnt help.
>
> The one thing I didn't think of to try.  How silly of me.  lol
>
> One thing I just noticed, it doesn't always do this.  I went back to a
> link that did it just before I posted and it worked fine this time.  So,
> this appears to be a intermittent problem which opens a new can of
> worms.  We all know how hard it is to fix those.
>
> I'll try killing flash next time it does it and see what that does.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

I notice the same with flash as well.
Switching to a console and then back to X also resets it.

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Joost