why is fedora/npviewer.bin crippling my system?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, hicham wrote:

> 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

this *is* on a 32-bit system.

rday
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