Strange firefox problem

[valemon]

So here it is:
Sometimes when i am viewing sites that need flash player (youtube) and push the little "x" button to exit tab firefox gets black-white (no colors) and crashes. i cannot exit and it remains in the panel. The only way to exit is restart x. Any suggestions?

[gogalthorp]

Do you have the latest FireFox and Flash?
Don't know what the Flash problem is but here is how to shut down a process.

Open a console type

ps -A

this lists all processes

find the name you want to kill type

kill PCI
where PCI is the process id number in the ps list

Note if the process is not owned by you you will need to do a 'su' and log in as root to kill it.

You might start FF from the command line and see if it throws any errors when the problem occurs.

[valemon]

I have firefox 2.0.0.3 and don't know which flash version, I install all the updates . When this happens and I execute "top" command, I cannot find firefox in order to kill it

[gogalthorp]

Use the ps -A command, top only shows the processes that are using the most processor cycles.

[MikeTbob]

I don't know about Gnome, but using KDE, you can also hit Ctrl+Alt+Esc to bring up a "kill cursor" (it changes to a skull/crossbones) then just click on the App you wish to kill.

[gogalthorp]

Too cool. I did not know that trick.

[valemon]

When I hit ctrl+alt+esc kde system guard comes up

[MikeTbob]

Well dang, it works for me on Fedora 6 and Gentoo, maybe if you were to fiddle with your keyboard shortcuts, you could set it to do whatever you like.
Kmenu>Control center>Regional & Accessibility>keyboard shortcuts>Miscellaneous>kill window

[oz]

The kill window option comes up with those keys for me.

[Cool01]

I have firefox 2.0.0.3 and don't know which flash version, I install all the updates . When this happens and I execute "top" command, I cannot find firefox in order to kill it

The latest version of FoxFire for OpenSuSE 10.2 is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.4-1.1 Firefox/2.0.0.4. Notice that it is x86_64. As far as I know, this is the first 64-bit version for 10.2. I expect that 10.1 shares this upgrade. 10.3 Alpha has been experimenting with 64-bit for a while now, so I guess this is the result (back-ported).