Tim: >> Is it random, or happens after you've been browsing pages which make use >> of the mplayer plugin? e.g. Pages with embedded movie clips. Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu: > I start Firefox, mplayer immediately starts to spawn and die. Do you have a homepage set? Does it include multi-media? Do you have an mplayer plug-in, and is Firefox set to check for updates to plug-ins at start up? Though I'd suspect that's start something else, not mplayer itself. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.