On 11.03.13 07:31, James Harper wrote:
Just lately, maybe in the last few months, I've had periodic freezes when using google or playing youtube videos. ...
Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?
TL;DR: There's a (transitory) fix (worked for me on youtube) at the end. On Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS I've had similar issues for about a year, but more often on links to ABC and BBC pages. The firefox activity indicator rotates for a quarter of an hour if I let it. On a good night, hitting the reload icon interrupts, bringing the page up within a few seconds. That said, it's stuck on a youtube link now. It has been going for about ten minutes, and is still on 0:00/2:06. Pausing, then hitting Play, doesn't help. Reloading the page containing the link to youtube, and then hitting Play, has now left it spinning fruitlessly for another 5 minutes. Restarting firefox also does not help - another attempt has now been spinning its wheel for a good 5 minutes, with zero progress. The ADSL modem says: Transmit Tx PDUs 15544 Tx Total Bytes 1438042 Tx Total Error Counts 0 Receive Rx PDUs 18250 Rx Total Bytes 20611199 Rx Total Error Counts 0 So I don't think we can blame the line. The Chase: Power cycling the ADSL modem still left firefox hung on the previous page fetch - but subsequently reloading the page, then hitting Play, started the film clip withing a second. That's usually what it takes, in extremis. Then things are good for a while - often the rest of the evening. Sometimes the problem is loss of DNS, and again, rebooting the router/modem fixes that every time. (That's a bit more obvious, though.) Erik -- On the basis of evidence we may be sure that we are wrong but we can never be sure that we are right. - Richard Feynman