Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome 2 is sick...

[toxiclown]

Hello all,

Anytime I come across (or go to) a page
that has a video on it Ununtu crawls to a stop with a gray screen. About 2 minutes later I (when 12.04 recovers) either I see a message that AFP has crashed, or "stop bad script?". I have tried different fixes for the AFP thru the Ubuntu forums, there is about 500 different ones, but I'm tired of the slow downs and crashes. I like Firefox, but have been using Chrome browser lately.

Chrome is quick like FF used to be. Is there an answer for me and I'm sure others?

Using:

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise

Linux 3.2.0-68-generic-pae

MoBo - M5A78L-M LX PLUS

CPU - AMD Athlon II X4 640 Processor

Video Card - Radeon HD 6570/7570

RAM - 8074 MBytes

Thank You

 

[skittle]

Try latest 14.04 (or 14.10 beta) and see if issue has been resolved with newer software. Alternatively don't use flash at all.

Try start firefox with no extensions or addons:

firefox -safe-mode

btw what is afp? such a generic acronym can be anything.

 

[Ijack]

Adobe Flash Player? (Certainly the most likely software to crash.)

It strikes me that this is a problem with Firefox/Flash rather than Ubuntu (or even Linux in general).

 

[toxiclown]

Well...it seems that Gmail Checker is slowing things down, but in Plugins I see that there is Shockwave Flash 15.xxx and SWF 11.xxx installed. When I disable SWF 15.xxx (SWF 11.xxx is enabled) and watch a video all works fine. When I go back to the Plugins, SWF 15.xxx has enabled itself, and the video I was using as a test, crashed.

I can't have just the one Flash player (SWF 11.xxx) running. As soon as I go back into the Plugins SWF 15.xxx is enabled.

It says Shockwave Flash in my Plugins and not Adobe Flash.

How do I totally remove SWF 15.xxx from my Ubuntu 12.04?

Thanks for the help...

 

[skittle]

How did you install flash in the first place? adobe flash 11.2 is the latest for Linux...

Personally I would just just nuke the entire .mozilla folder and start fresh.
rm -rf ~/mozilla

 

[toxiclown]

I'm not sure how I got SWF 15.xxx. I have Chrome browser, but I had the SWF 15.xxx before I installed it...

Thanks