Hi,

I'm using SuSE 9.1 with KDE and Xfce 4 as my desktops. I usually use only Xfce4. The trouble:

1. Firefox always hangs when I visit certain websites. There are no error messages. The browser just freezes and I have to use 'xkill' to close the browser.
2. I tried opening firefox through the terminal to see if any error messages will be rendered there. - No error messages in terminal.
3. Konqueror doesn't hang when I use it to visit the same websites.

Is there anything I can do to see what's wrong?

The 2 known websites that never fail to freeze the browser:
1. Yahoo! Mail
2. www.cherrycorp.com/deutsch/index.htm

I do not know the exact moment the browser freezes. But it always happens after I click on a link or button. In Yahoo! Mail, it seems to be random. Sometimes it happens when I click on 'Inbox', sometimes when I click on 'Empty' (Trash) and so on.

For the Cherry website (sorry for giving the german link, but for some reasons, the browser automatically directs me to the german website), the browser hangs after I click on the 2nd or 3rd link. For example:

1. Go to www.cherrycorp.com/deutsch/index.htm
2. Click on the picture of the keyboard below "Computer Eingabegeräte" - No problem here
3. Click on the next link after the page has loaded eg. "CyMotion Line" - Immediately the browser hangs

Can anyone help, please?

I'm thinking it's a flash problem..try deleting the flash plugin out of your plugins folder, and reload the page.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I was at my wit's end trying to figure out this problem.

It worked! Thanks! I did a little googling about "firefox + flash + hang" and instead of deleting the flash plugin, I installed a firefox extension called "Flashblock" which replaces the flash with a little button.

I've visited the 2 websites and have been clicking like mad on all the links there and the browser worked just fine. So I guess, problem is solved.

But could you explain why flash was the culprit? Is there a way to get around it or do I have to do without flash whenever I'm surfing the net?

I often see people having problems with Firefox and flash when they have a hard copy of the flash plugin files in their Firefox plugins directory instead of having symbolic links, which is the way it should be. It may not apply to you, but that's my little observation.

The plugins in my Firefox directory are symbolic links. I went to the plugins directory and did a "ls -F" and all the plugins except for "libnullplugin.so" have the "@" sign in front of them. Thanks for the input.

Could it be due to my system in general? I'm using Pentium III, 667 MHz with 128MB RAM.

Hmmm... I doubt your system itself is the problem. Which version of flash are you trying to use?

I'm using flash-player-6.0.81-2. I think this is an old version of flash but this is the latest rpm that is available for SuSE. And I notice that not all website with flash will make firefox hang/

If I were you, i'd install it from the tar.gz package at macromedia.com

I did as you said and installed the latest version of flash from the macromedia site. Then opened several sites all with high flash contents and everything seems to be fine. Yay!

Thanks!