npviewer.bin making my computer slow

[anyweb]

i've always noticed npviewer.bin causing my browsing to become slow but its getting worse and worse lately, today for example the cpu usage was at 181%, i mean how can it get so high and that process is using all the bandwidt showing nothing but ad's, aside from blocking ad's is there a way to improve this at all ? i use fedora 15.

[Dungeon-Dave]

I had this issue - when I wanted to run the 32-bit flash on a 64-bit system.

 

Since upgrading the flash plugin to the 64-bit version, I no longer had this issue.

 

Looks like it wasn't just me.

[anyweb]

that link doesn't work for me dave,

 

am i runnin x64 i'm not sure,

 

[anyweb@localhost ~]$ uname -ar

Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.41.10-3.fc15.i686 #1 SMP Mon Jan 23 15:44:18 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

 

[Dungeon-Dave]

"uname -a" ought to show if you're using i386, i686 or x86_64 (64-bit).

 

There's also some way of looking at /proc/cpuinfo, but I don't know what the actual setting is that identifies 32/64 bit (something to do with a specific flag being present).

[anyweb]

i guess i'm 32 bit then, i've checked the flags (lm) in cat /proc/cpuinfo and they exist so the hardware is 64bit capable

 

am i screwed then ?

[Dungeon-Dave]

erm.. you shouldn't be.

 

Firstly... it may be worthwhile looking to see if you can build your OS in 64-bit (there's no upgrade path, but you could benefit from trying out a live image). 64-bit apps under a 64-bit OS on a 64-bit chip are more efficient than 32-bit apps under a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit chip.

 

I thought you were running a 32-bit app on a 64-bit OS, using npviewer as a wrapper.

[anyweb]

well i think something must have changed recently i notice the 'issue' most in my hotmail, when trying to read mails there the Flash/shockwave/whatever advertisement on the right side of the page causes firefox to slow to a crawl and it becomes pratically unusable until i either kill npiviewer or lower the quality of the current ad from high to low..

 

very very annoying at the moment,

 

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[hybrid]

This isn't directly a solution for this npviewer.bin thing, but I find myself just blocking Flash and other plugins unless they're something I actually want to interact with. This might not be what you want to do, but it certainly would resolve the problem.

 

FlashBlock is pretty effective for this.

[anyweb]

added it, wow what a difference, thanks a million !

[Dungeon-Dave]

Doh.. I have that plugin and use it all the time.. didn't think to suggest it!