On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:26:44 -0400 (EDT) > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > it's always been bad but now it's gotten worse -- over the last few > > weeks, the combination of firefox and npviewer.bin is just crushing my > > machine in terms of response. > > Is npviewer.bin the nspluginwrapper helper program? (I can't remember > the name). If so, then yes, I saw the same thing (depending on which > plugin happened to do what) till I removed the nspluginwrapper > from my system. > > what you can do is get rid of firefox.x86_64 and npluginwrapper and install instead firefox.i386 hicham