Firefox crash: npviewer.bin is not responding.

[ughi]

Firefox crashes frequently when surfing on certain pages.

Is there something to be done about this?

[glennzo]

ughi, have a look at this thread

[ughi]

Well, now I am bit more confused

I have mozilla-vlc plugin installed. What I thinkl I found out is that it might cause the problem or then solve it. I don't have nspluginwrapper installed unless it has installed with some other software.

But, one thing that I found common to my pc crashing is that everytime there are multiple npviewers open when I kill firefox after hangup.

[ughi]

Sometimes not a single one of those flash contents on a page is shown.
Then on the same site on another subpage multiple flashes work without any problem.

It does not really matter, since they usually are just adds.

But it does matter when browser crashes because of it.

Can anyone tell why the hangup occurs in the first place?
My guess is that web designers are trying too hard to make fancy technical pages and have totally forgotten for what reason webpages are made for.

[Demz]

have you downloaded an extracted a firefox Tarball from the mozilla site? or use swiftfox , but the gecko crashes are due to fedora's Firefox being at fault

[ughi]

have you downloaded an extracted a firefox Tarball from the mozilla site?

Most probably yes.
I have installed so many different linux distros to many pc's recently that I am not quite sure.
Usually I have downloaded latest version everytime I install linux.

or use swiftfox ,

Downloaded and installed. I'll give it a try.

but the gecko crashes are due to fedora's Firefox being at fault

How is this possible. I'd understand if fedora were a commercial product and the driving force would be a quick earnings. Maybe two versions per year is bit too much to handle.

[ughi]

It seems that browser/flashplayer does not crash anymore and shows flash content correctly.

But some other issue came up. Some links and filenames do not work.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=176827