why is fedora/npviewer.bin crippling my system?

hicham hichamlinux at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 16:02:11 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:26:44 -0400 (EDT)
>  "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  >   it's always been bad but now it's gotten worse -- over the last few
>  > weeks, the combination of firefox and npviewer.bin is just crushing my
>  > machine in terms of response.
>
>  Is npviewer.bin the nspluginwrapper helper program? (I can't remember
>  the name). If so, then yes, I saw the same thing (depending on which
>  plugin happened to do what) till I removed the nspluginwrapper
>  from my system.
>
>
what you can do is get rid of firefox.x86_64 and npluginwrapper
and install instead firefox.i386

hicham




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