Hey all,

I am just wondering if anyone else here uses Opera and experiences very 
regular freezes or lock ups? For some reason, it seems that sometimes, when I 
start to go to a new page, the browser just becomes unresponsive and freezes 
up.

Is this related the the threading that Opera uses? Is this a known issue?


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Hello,

 I have the same problem with my opera. I'm not sure what it is but it seem to be related to flash,  it usually happen when im trying to view myspace related page ( for music ) . I thought it could be sound related too..maybe it's trying to access sound device when it already in use by another program and it make opera hangs ? all this are suppositions though ... im a newbie so if someone else have a clever and more articulated response to that it  would be welcomed.          










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I don't have much to add other than I experience the same thing with
many Flash sites.



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Same here only it does not happen only with flash sites.
Sometimes, just starting opera and going to google.com is enough to hang...
Never looked into it...

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I have this problem on my dual PIII-550 system, but only in dual-CPU
mode. When only one CPU is enabled, Opera surfs like a charm... Looks
like there are more problems with shared memory, but I'm unsure.

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This is very interesting to me, as I am running using the MP kernel as well. I 
am doing so because I have a Dual Core system, but, maybe there is not that 
big of a performance gain?

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A bit late too the discussion, but I have a similar issue with Opera
on OpenBSD.  As with yourself, I don't even have to go to a
Flash-based site and Opera randomly freezes.

Oddly though, it only freezes when used on the machine it's
installed on, an Athlon 1.2 GHz T-bird.  When I use Opera from the
same machine, but X-forwarded via SSH on another machine also
running OpenBSD, it _never_ freezes.  :-\

The *other* machine being a P233.

How weird is that?  :-)

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I believe this isn't so hard. :-)

I've narrowed the situation down to the kernel I use. GENERIC does not cause 
any freezes, with or without shared memory increased. GENERIC.MP does freeze 
very reliably, but it does seem somewhat (though probably only incidently) 
related to the Shared Memeory size (kern.shminfo.shmall or whatever it is).

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I'm not using GENERIC.MP and Firefox freezes with the flash plugin..
But I really don't know if the problem is the flash plugin, I tried getting
one at adobe site, latest firefox and firefox crashes when I enter some page
that has no flash media. (firefox running with linux binary emulation :)
I'm still doing some tests and reply if I found anything relevant..

Cya


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I'm seeing many freezes using Opera 9.02 on Linux.  I don't think it's an
OBSD issue.  It appears to be Flash-related and possibly Javascript
related.  I'd upgrade if you can, they're at 9.23.  For other reasons, I
don't want to upgrade that particular box, and installing from the
tar.gz looks problematic on Linux.  The installer on the Opera website
seems directed at BSD and might work for OBSD, though.
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KBK

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The FreeBSD version can be runned with fbsd binary emulation, but adobe
doesn't release the flash plugin for fbsd system, just for Linux, that's why
most people need a Linux emulated host browser to run the binary flash
plugin.
So no reason to emulate the fbsd browser, use native firefox instead of.

Cya


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