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npviewer.bin continues to run after firefox freezes and is killed

Bug #163361 reported by Trevor Schauls on 2007-11-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #141613: npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to
	nspluginwrapper (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Gutsy by gururise
Nominated for Hardy by gururise

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

In 64 bit Ubuntu, firefox sometimes freezes on a flash object. When you kill firefox, the flash object stays behind. When you kill the application npviewer.bin, it goes away.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 17 10:12:45 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: firefox 2.0.0.8+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux trevorubuntu 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Trevor Schauls (trevorschauls) wrote on 2007-11-17:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (330 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
pluginreg.dat.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote on 2007-11-21:

steps to reproduce
1)start firefox
2)go to a page with flash content
3)killall -9 firefox-bin

flash will remain onscreen and float above everything else.

need to do killall npviewer.bin to get rid of it.

Changed in firefox:
status:	New → Confirmed

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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote on 2007-11-21:

screenshot showing stuck flash floating above things Edit (799.3 KiB, image/png)

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gururise (gururise) wrote on 2008-01-25:

I too see this bug, as it happens quite often in Firefox when viewing any website with flash. The flash ads in http://www.slashdot.org somtimes even cause npviewer.bin to crash.