On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, hicham wrote: > 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 this *is* on a 32-bit system. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ========================================================================