Re: Youtube killed Epiphany dead

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On 8/3/06, Beartooth <beartooth adelphia net> wrote:
> I was running Epiphany-2.14.2.1-1.fc5.1 behind privoxy-3.0.3-9.2.1
> (unmodified, as installed) under Fedora Core 5. A friend sent me a URL,
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8uefBUOfgA which I put into one of eight
> or ten tabs and clicked on.
>
> The video -- a clip of a rather hoky-looking blue-eyed penguin, supposedly
> used by a German stand-up comedian named Dieter Nuhr, which turns toward
> the camera and works its beak, supposedly uttering a certain vulgarism.
>
> I don't normally do sound, anyway, but decided to try it this time. Never
> got any. Tried to open the Preferences dialog : clicked on Edit, then on
> Preferences; that word took the highlight -- and everything froze.

Youtube = Flash, which is always a bad time.  Plus, sound with Flash
takes a bit of extra setup perhaps.  Try the following:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats#head-f375cba46014e861cd5ec7643bd7c4ef05acff2b

> Then, trying the next thing I could think of, as root, got me things way
> beyond my comprehension :
>
> [root localhost ~]# ps ax | grep epiphany
> 12248 ?        Ssl   21:02 epiphany --sm-config-prefix /epiphany-pXAGFV/
> --sm-client-id 117f000001000115067871600000054740017 --screen 0 18381
> pts/1    R+     0:00 grep epiphany
> [root localhost ~]#
>
> I suppose I need to know how and where to get into epiphany from the
> command line and get rid of the youtube URL and its tab; do I also need
> more? Anything to do to privoxy or Fedora itself??

I think it looks like epiphany is still running, though you Force Quit
it.  I'd say kill it.  'killall epiphany' should do the trick, or you
could end the process in the GNOME System Monitor.  Either way, you
should be able to get Epiphany to start after that by just telling it
not to recover tabs.

HTH,
Andrew