I am using Kubuntu 6.10. Several weeks ago have installed Opera. /I got used to given browser even in Ubuntu 6.06/. After one week it occasionally hang /didn't respond at all - had to close an application and open it up again/. This kind of strange behavior continued and took place more often with time. Now Opera hangs every 5th, 6th web site opened.

Does Anybody have an idea of what is going on? Any logs will be attached to topic just let me know what kind of info do you need.

Thanks.

Does it hang repeatedly on the same website? Does it hang intermittently on the same website that previously worked? It could be that a particular website uses flash or java and the problem is with an extension or plug-in. Perhaps a third party advert uses a very large flash animation which comes from a third party server, which has low bandwith. Try disabling as many features as possible and bring them back one by one until the problem reoccurs. You might also look at the source of effected sites and see if you notice any commonality.

I was thinking about that. I can say that Opera usually hangs opening sites containing Flash. That is the only common feature I mentioned so far. There is Flash9 beta installed on my laptop. Hope those problems will be resolved as soon as Flash 9 final version will be released.

Anyway, the only workaround here is to completely disable flash. Does anyone have any other ideas?

If the flash 9 plugin freezes on you using both Opera and Firefox, then that would probably sinch where the problem lies, and waiting for an update might be the best solution.

Hmm, Firefox does not freeze on sites where Opera does. That's the main problem. I was thinking maybe Opera treats Flash plugin/library somehow incorrectly what would explain present behavior. As you might know Opera is really uncertain Browser in terms of JavaScript - the same script would work perfectly in Firefox and would not in Opera.

What has the Flash plugin to do with Javascript? And then how is Opera "uncertain" regarding Javascript?

Anyway, I can confirm that Flash 9.0.21.78 freezes Opera with the CPU at 98% or so. From its release notes:

I've just tried, but it's pretty darn difficult to disable only Flash without also disabling the other plugins in the same plugin path. You could try to put libflashplayer.so in another directory of its own and adding that dir only to Fireweasel's plugin path, but it's a kludge.