Quote Originally Posted by klaus2008 View Post
I would suggest that you open a terminal and issue
Code:
chromium
Hi klaus2008

You're very clever.

I issued "Chromium" at terminal. It starts at my home page which is
www.google.com/webhp?complete=0

(I use this URL all the time. It simply takes you to google, but you don't get
the annoying drop-down selection list as you type your search string.)

Back to the plot. The cursor didn't automatically sit in search box as it
normally does. I chose not to enter a search string, and just waited. After
about a minute, the following message appeared:

"Following pages have become unresponsive. You can wait for them to become
responsive or kill them. Kill pages -OR- Wait".

I clicked "Kill pages", then message/page "He's dead, Jim!" appears.

So i exited Chromium, which returned me to terminal. I got the following output:

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ chromium
[5:5:3444306844:ERROR:nss_util.cc(459)] Error initializing NSS without a
persistent database: libsoftokn3.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission
denied
INFO: Lightspark version 0.6.0.1 Copyright 2009-2012 Alessandro Pignotti and
others
NOT_IMPLEMENTED: The SDL audio plugin does only support one concurrent stream!
INFO: A plugin was found. Adding it to the list.
INFO: The plugin SDL plugin was added with backend: sdl
INFO: A plugin was found. Adding it to the list.
INFO: The plugin Pulse plugin output only was added with backend: pulseaudio
INFO: the selected backend is: pulseaudio
INFO: get_plugin: pulseaudio
INFO: RenderThread this=0xb7a4e200
INFO: Creating input thread
INFO: Newstream for
http://static.googleusercontent.com/...lcp/www.google.
com/en//logos/swf/startrek12.swf
INFO: NET: Downloading to memory
INFO: Compressed SWF file: Version 9
INFO: FrameRate 24
INFO: Creating VM
INFO: Download complete
http://static.googleusercontent.com/...lcp/www.google.
com/en//logos/swf/startrek12.swf
INFO: SWF Metadata:
format: application/x-shockwave-flash
title: Adobe Flex 3 Application
description: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex
publisher: unknown
creator: unknown
language: EN
date: Sep 6, 2012
INFO: MaxRecursionDepth: 1000, ScriptTimeoutSeconds: 60
INFO: SWF Info:
ProductId: 3
Edition: 6
Version: 3.2.0.3958
CompileTime: 0
NOT_IMPLEMENTED: Unsupported tag type 56
NOT_IMPLEMENTED: Unimplemented Tag 56
INFO: NS_DestroyPluginInstance 0xb79c1cc0
INFO: ~nsPluginInstance 0xb79c1cc0
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$


I don't understand the output of course because I'm VERY new to Linux.

(As a side point, does some of the output suggest that google is doing some kind
of clandestine downloading?

You see, i've transferred from Microsoft Windows to Linux because i don't like
the fact that Windows software downloads and uploads information to/from my
hard-drive as and when it feels like it (whenever i'm connected to the
internet).)

I can tell that you're quite an expert. Is there anything in the above output
that tells you what's causing my "unresponsive pages" problem?

WHAT'S ODD TO ME is that I don't recall doing anything in Chromium or Knoppix
that may have caused this Chromium problem to start. Having said that, while i
was carrying out your fine instructions to get wifi to work, i did accidentally
REPEAT one of the terminal commands you gave me. So i don't know if that has
done something dodgey.

Many thanks for your kind help with this. John.