npviewer.bin out of control!

[strycat]

according to top something called npviewer.bin is eating up all my CPU and memory. I tried searching for what package (apt-file search npviewer) but got no results.

If anyone can tell me how to remove it, I'd like to try that. If that isn't a good idea, someone please tell me how to get it to stop eating up all my resources.

Thanks in advance.

[SavagePT]

Re: npviewer.bin out of control!

Npviewer is necessary to view flash content on your browser. I would suggest you to install noscript or flashblock. That way you will only see flash where it's needed, and it will reduce your CPU usage.

[dibl]

Re: npviewer.bin out of control!

If you are using Firefox, you might want to give chromium-browser a try. IIRC that "runaway npviewer" issue was always worse with Firefox.

[strycat]

Re: npviewer.bin out of control!

If you are using Firefox, you might want to give chromium-browser a try. IIRC that "runaway npviewer" issue was always worse with Firefox.

I haven't had this npviewer problem until recently, so it should be something that can be fixed.

Also if I switch to chrome, then I'll have to find a new search engine since I don't want Google knowing both what I search for and what I browse to.

[Teunis]

Re: npviewer.bin out of control!

Also if I switch to chrome, then I'll have to find a new search engine since I don't want Google knowing both what I search for and what I browse to.

+1, exactly my thought!

Anyhow, one of the flashblock plugins could make you happy.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: npviewer.bin out of control!

FYI, I am using the latest firefox-7 and 64-bit flash player. I do not see npviewer anywhere on my system, nor is it running when I am watching flash on firefox.

I am using a 64-bit system with 64-bit flash player installed by the sevenmachines ppa.

As I recall, npviewer is really a relic from the past, part of the nspluginwrapper package that you don't need anymore for firefox. You might need it for konqueror, etc, I don't know as I don't use them.

Anyway, you should be able to kill npviewer if it's running. It may be getting restarted when you shut down and restart because it's a running process. Kill it before you log out and it shouldn't come back

ps -e | grep npviewer

this will give you a number in the first column for npviewer.

then

kill -9 number

Should be gone.

[strycat]

Re: npviewer.bin out of control!

FYI, I am using the latest firefox-7 and 64-bit flash player. I do not see npviewer anywhere on my system, nor is it running when I am watching flash on firefox.

I am using a 64-bit system with 64-bit flash player installed by the sevenmachines ppa.

This is what I want.

I'm using whatever is in the Oneiric repos. According to the help, firefox 7.0.1 and Shockwave Flash 11.0 r1

As I recall, npviewer is really a relic from the past, part of the nspluginwrapper package that you don't need anymore for firefox. You might need it for konqueror, etc, I don't know as I don't use them.

This is what I thought. How do I get my system to like yours?

[doctordruidphd]

Re: npviewer.bin out of control!

See here for more information:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AM...efoxAndPlugins

Here is what I did:

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-downloader flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound flashplugin-installer adobe-flashplugin nspluginwrapper

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

Even after doing this, firefox may have trouble finding the flash plugin.

You may need to do the following:

ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /home/yourusername/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

substituting your home directory for yourusername.

and maybe also:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so


Remember that I don't use other borwsers, so I can't say whether this will break flash on konqueror, rekonq, aurora, opera, chrome, etc. No promises there.

Edit: That should be add-apt-repository, NOT apt-add-repository. It appears to be incorrect in the link. sorry for the confusion.

[Snowhog]

Re: npviewer.bin out of control!

I'm using sevenmachines ppa, and his flashplugin64-installer. Works great for flash sites in Chromium as well as in Rekonq. Not sure about Firefox, as I don't have that installed here.