Comment 44 for bug 107093

I'm using the latest of everything - Ubuntu, Firefox, Flash. All on a 600MHz PIII (ASUS P3B-F motherboard) 1 GByte RAM, lots of disk space.

On visiting Flash-heavy sites such as http://www.engadget.com the system freezes up as described in this thread. Attempts to telnet in from another system are nonresponsive. A hard push-the-damn-button reset is necessary to get back. Though I've noticed this "feature" of this fairly new Ubuntu install I can't lay blame on Flash; for all I know visiting some other site or doing some other type of processing could bring on a crash as well; the install is too new and my use so far so limited (pretty much browsing ONLY at this point) that I don;t hav eother datapoints to supply.

On occasion, visiting YouTube will also simply crash Firefox (that is, the app simply exits abruptly). But YouTube, too, has caused total unrecoverable system freezes as well.

This is a fairly repeatable freeze, BTW - just visit Engadget and Poof! I think it is a 100% repeat but there is a small possibility it is not ALL the time - I fear Engadget now so don't overtly visit it anymore - only if someone has TinyURLed an Engadget page do I go there...and Poof!

[After posting this message just to confirm there are others out here with the same problem, I'll visit Engadget and, after that hard reset (...), post another message here on the result...gulp!]