Re: giving up on google-chrome

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Richard Shaw wrote:

> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I've been happily using google-chrome on F14 for some time, from
>> baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
>>
>> I've used this together with
>> flash-plugin-10.2.159.1-release.i386
>>
>> using nspluginwrapper.
>>
>> I used to use google-chrome-unstable, but then one day, it started
>> misbehaving. When quit, chrome would not restart.  Or, it would, but no pages
>> would load.  I found that when quit, several processes were left running.
>>
>> The only way to restart was to killall chrome (2 times!), then rm -rf
>> ~/.config/google-chrome.  Fortunately, chrome sync would reinstall all my
>> plugins and pretty much restore everything.
>>
>> Now the problem is, that the current google-chrome-stable is doing the same
>> thing.
>>
>> I have reason to believe it is actually using flash that is causing this
>> problem.
>>
>> Anyway, no more chrome for me (these experiments get a bit old after a
>> while). Unless, someone knows a workaround? (besides, no flash)
> 
> Not sure. I've been running google-chrome-beta for a while now without
> any major issues. I'm not sure firefox will be much better. My kids
> play flash games online and frequently flash crashes but npviewer.bin
> or whatever stays active and sucking CPU cycles until I manually kill
> it.
> 
> I'm using 64bit flash and chrome with nspluginwrapper (64bit to 6464
> wrapping) if it makes a difference.
> 
> Richard

I've avoided 64bit flash because it does not appear to be well-maintained or 
supported (still alpha I think, and no updates for long time)

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