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On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:53:25 Dale wrote: |
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> Joost Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: |
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> >> I been working on gathering information for this for a while. I just |
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> >> tried something else. I use the download helper plugin in Firefox to |
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> >> download videos. Also, it crashes when I am downloading videos but |
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> >> that |
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> >> is about all I use Firefox for. I had a light bulb moment and decided |
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> >> to see if the same plugin was available for Seamonkey. It was |
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> >> available |
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> >> so I installed it. It works the same as in Firefox. So, I closed as |
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> >> much stuff as I could and started downloading a couple good size |
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> >> videos. After a few minutes, you guessed it, kernel panic followed by |
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> >> a |
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> >> reboot. To make sure it was not a fluke or something, I repeated the |
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> >> process and got the same result. |
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> > Dale, |
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> > I would suspect the download-helper-plugin as that is common in both the |
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> > Firefox and Seamonkey crashes. |
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> > Can you provide a link to the plugin you use to allow others to test |
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> > this to see if it works for them? |
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> I'm not sure you are right but it is possible. Here is a linky: |
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> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/seamonkey/addon/video-downloadhelper/ |
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Looks nice, actually. Even calls "ffmpeg" to convert the videos to different |
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formats. |
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Will try it this week and will see if it causes issues for me. |
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> It's pretty straight forward. I can get a failure by going to youtube |
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> and starting the download of two or three fairly long movies. I usually |
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> middle click and open the video in a new tab. Then start the download |
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> and close the tab. I usually walk off or watch TV while it downloads. |
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> I have the slow DSL here so it takes a bit to download but it usually |
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> crashes in a minute or two. Firefox crashes faster but Seamonkey only |
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> takes a couple minutes or something. |
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In a new tab, that could be part of it. Do you also get it if you use a single |
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tab? Eg. open video, start download, then wait? |
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> If anyone tests this, let me know if it messes up. I'm on amd64 |
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> multilib too. That may have some effect. |
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Same here, so should be an interesting test. |
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I also use the nvidia-drivers and KDE4, so we're pretty close with the |
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installed/used software. |
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