-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/08 08:14, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Mihira Fernando wrote the following on 02/07/2008 04:13 AM: >> Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >>> Greetings; >>> >>> Well, just ran into a another frequent problem. >>> >>> I just re-booted and restarted Iceweasel. (22 windows, >>> I don't know how many tabs.) I had a bad feeling as >>> soon as I saw that all the favicons were YouTube. >> There you go. As others reported before, Flash doesn't play nicely on >> Iceweasel. 22 youtube windows will certainly crash Iceweasel. >> This is a behavior I have noticed on Iceweasel as well. Load flash >> intensive pages or lots of pages that has flash components in Iceweasel >> and the weasel looses its cool and crashes. Sometimes it just freezes >> other times it terminates on its own. >> However upon restarting Iceweasel it asks to restore the crashed session >> or start a new session. If you don't get that prompt, then your >> configuration has deviated from the default. >> >>> Everytime I try to get an internet page, either refresh >>> or new link, I get the following message, and no page. >>> >>> Not Found >>> >>> The requested URL /~joyce/album/ was not found >>> on this server. >>> Apache Server at www.youtube.com Port 80 >>> >>> It appears that it is really sending the request to >>> YouTube. I have no idea why! >> Youtube is using flash. That's the reason. >> >>> Thanks for any help! >>> >>> Dennis >> Mihira. >> >> > Mihira, > > Slight misunderstanding. None of these pages had a > youtube URL or contained any flash "stuff" in it. > > Iceweasel just all of a sudden starts sending all > requests to Youtube. It also occasionally sends them to > Redhat, but not as often. > > The little Youtube favicon will show up in the tabs > when this is happening, doesn't make any difference > what the actual page is! > > I have installed Flash Block and Block Site so I will > see what effect they have.
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