On 8/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Forster</b> <<a href="mailto:rick@forster.uklinux.net">rick@forster.uklinux.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Whaddaya know, I just crashed Firefox and couldn't kill it.<br>It absolutely wouldn't budge. I couldn't even close the window, which I<br>usually can. kill -9 was as benign as pwd.<br><br>Then I ran ps -el as suggested by Matthew and saw the letters usb
<br>somewhere in the firefox line.<br><br>Hmmmm<br><br>So I unplugged various things including a digital camera, and as I did<br>the Firefox window vanished. I could then restart it without needing a<br>reboot.</blockquote>
<div><br>Do you have a USB webcam/mic? If you think it is Flash, it could be
Flash in Firefox trying to grab those devices... and obviously failing.
Just a guess.<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Weird. But I know what (not) to do now.<br><br><br>Rick</blockquote>
<div><br>Matthew. <br></div><br></div>