On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Sander Hoentjen wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 01:27 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > p.s. firefox, in general, has been impressing me less and less as > > time has gone by. after i finally killed it above, once again, it > > left a youtube image embedded firmly in my desktop, which could > > only be cleared by logging out of X entirely. > > > > i think it's finally time to switch browsers. > > Or try to remove nspluginwrapper or not use the flash plugin, which > seems to be the reason for a lot of performance problems as well. It > is also the flash plugin (maybe in combination with nspluginwrapper) > that was the reason for the youtube image, you could have removed it > by killing npviewer.bin good point, i'll look at that. in any event, something has to go -- i'm getting thoroughly tired of firefox and its friends crippling my system on a regular basis. rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
