Ernie Schroder wrote: >Certain pages opened in Firefox start java_vm processes that will not allow >mplayer to work until I do a killall java_vm. When I do that, any and all >firefox windows will close as well. Closing all instances of firefox also >kills all java_vm processes. At times I might have 15 or 20 instances of the >java_vm. Does anyone have a fix? this has persisted through several java and >firfox updates. > >which java >/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/bin/java > >www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin > Latest version available: 1.0.7 > Latest version installed: 1.0.7 > > I have noticed this with Mozilla too. If I go to weather.com and get the radar thing, java never closes until I close Mozilla. It also seems to open a new one each time I reload a new radar image too.
This may be a bigger bug than we thought. That coming from someone that is not a programmer though. ;) Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
