Doh! I spoke too soon. Version 9.0.115.0 has just crashed firefox. It took three days, but I was going Back on a collegehumor video and firefox froze. Thank god for firefox's Restore feature and Flash Block's plugin. I would say the ratio has decreased to around 1/70 now.
View my previous comment and instructions as only a way to reduce the frequency of the crashes. Is there anyone more technically minded than me worrying about this bug? I view it as a critical problem since not many regular people will make the jump from Windows to Ubuntu if youtube doesn't work. I realize that this is proprietary software we're dealing with, but there has to be something we can do. Apparently this is an architecture-specific bug, so here is a review on my type of computer: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3298&review=Sager+NP6260 I'd be happy to follow any troubleshooting suggestions from those unable to reproduce it. You have a volunteer from an affected computer. I've tried everything in this thread and in bug #(104470) except changing the kernel. But possessing no advanced computer skills, I feel unqualified to diagnose this problem. -- Firefox hangs when closing a page with flash running https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98688 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
