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Offline seasons

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[EN] [SOLVED]Iceweasel freezing (leaves flashplugin process)
« on: 2014/04/12, 11:36:41 »
Is anyone else having freezing issues with Iceweasel 28 and latest Flash plugin (11.2.202.350)?
« Last Edit: 2014/04/19, 15:13:13 by seasons »

Offline seasons

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Re: Iceweasel freezing (leaves flashplugin process)
« Reply #1 on: 2014/04/12, 11:57:58 »
Nvm: irrelevant post
« Last Edit: 2014/04/12, 22:57:45 by seasons »

Offline seasons

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Re: Iceweasel freezing (leaves flashplugin process)
« Reply #2 on: 2014/04/12, 22:57:10 »
Okay, so I fixed Flash video by getting my audio card working again. For some reason, it didn't like the onboard audio (maybe because I didn't have dmix set up).
Anyway....
I'm still having freezing. When it happens, it's always in the middle of a page load or I've just clicked a link. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with it, but I often see that when it freezes, it's trying to contact an ad/spyware site like google-analytics or imwx.com

Are the marketing drones somehow fighting back against Adblock? I guess I should see if it happens with safe-mode, but I consider the internet to be nearly unusable without ad blocking.

Offline ReinerS

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Re: Iceweasel freezing (leaves flashplugin process)
« Reply #3 on: 2014/04/13, 00:28:26 »
I have freezes sometimes too with iceweasel 30. Cannot say yet what might cause them.
Killing and restarting iceweasel helps for some time.

regards

Reiner
slackware => SuSE => kanotix => sidux => aptosid  => siduction

Offline sunrat

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Re: Iceweasel freezing (leaves flashplugin process)
« Reply #4 on: 2014/04/15, 03:58:13 »
I get occasional freezes with Iceweasel 30 too and haven't worked out why.

You can use Ghostery or similar to block the tracking.
AdBlock is different, it blocks ads not tracking. I do see the occasional site that either politely asks you to disable AdBlock, or sometimes blocks content. You can disable it on a per-site basis.

I use Ghostery, Adblock, Better Privacy and Selective Cookie Delete; together they filter most of the unwanted material.

Offline seasons

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Re: Iceweasel freezing (leaves flashplugin process)
« Reply #5 on: 2014/04/15, 18:05:08 »
Ghostery seems to have helped a lot. Thanks.