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From: "Tero Grundström" <tero@××××××××××××.fi>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/mplayer hang
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:34:37
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.58.0412052322510.18715@vuosaari.hai.fi
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Firefox/mplayer hang by Mark Knecht
1 On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Mark Knecht wrote:
2
3 > Hi,
4 > Does anyone else have the problem where you go to some link in
5 > Firefox that is going ot play an mp3/ogg/whatever and then when either
6 > you don't want to continue or maybe when the site doesn't respond, you
7 > decide to hit the back arrow, and at that point Firefox and mplayer
8 > seem hung and the only way out is to kill them from a terminal.
9
10 You mean Firefox with mplayerplug-in hangs? This is a known problem with
11 mplayerplug-in. According to what I've read, it is fixed in version 2.70.
12
13 Haven't upgraded to it myself yet, as it now requires you to compile
14 Gecko-SDK as well. That means you'll have to compile whole mozilla just
15 to use this plug-in...
16
17 See this bug:
18 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50822
19
20 and this forum topic:
21 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=261049&highlight=geckosdk
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