[Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

[Lester Caine]

Dave Stubbs wrote:
>
> On 11 Jan 2012 22:08, "Lester Caine" <lester at lsces.co.uk
> <mailto:lester at lsces.co.uk>> wrote:
>  >
>  > Lester Caine wrote:
>  >>
>  >> I know what areas of data I am working on.
>  >
>  >
>  > OK Just crashed it again ... but having done at least a couple of hours work
> and saved MOST of it.
>  >
>  > So to log current state ...
>  > Flash area just went grey
>  > Bottom line has "Transfering data from ecn.t0.tiles.virtualearth.net..."
>  > Processors are quiet
>  > RAM at 35%
>  > Swap 0%
>  >
>  > Trying to close tab get
>  > "This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave - data you have
> entered may not be saved" and this leaves a track in the grey area.
>
> Do you have multiple browser tabs open? There's a horrible flash bug on at least
> 64 bit Linux that will happily freeze any and all flash instances within your
> browser. The culprit is usually some stupid video advert in a tab you're not
> even using. It seems to get more likely the more flash is running.
>
> Symptoms are all your flash areas going grey and unresponsive.
>
> Only mitigation I found is use a separate browser for editing. If your normal
> browser is Firefox, just fire up chrome for potlatch only to stop the
> interference. I was actually using this in a non-potlatch context: trying to
> watch f1 practice on iPlayer at the same time as surfing news sites.

OK I did have a lot less active last night ... and probably was looking up other 
data to cross check things at that point in the evening. I DID have flash 
disabled completely simply to get rid of the advertising crap, so I probably 
want seamonkey configured with that off again, and just use a firefox window for 
editing ;)

Thanks for the nudge ... exactly the sort of thing I was looking for!

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