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vajorie

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Registered: 2009-03-12

Posts: 66

hulu freezes firefox & opera

I'm having problems with hulu (not with youtube and the like), and after some search, I decided that this is probably a hardware issue... I think whatever I have cannot handle this website. but I'm still wondering whether anyone knows any workarounds or such. things I tried:
* increase flash cache (using that adobe website)
* decrease flash quality (right click -> quality -> low)
* firefox via wine
* ie6 via wine
* firefox via wine both of which were running in ram (not just the profile but the whole thing, including wine binaries, was in tmpfs)
* firefox in ubuntu (I dual boot)
* opera

any ideas?
thanks in advance

vs.taras

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Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 5

Re: hulu freezes firefox & opera

bump

I have the same exact problem, did you get anywhere?

vajorie

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Registered: 2009-03-12

Posts: 66

Re: hulu freezes firefox & opera

bump

I have the same exact problem, did you get anywhere?

nope, but I suspect that mine is also a bit due to the specs of the laptop... It's a 2.6 celeron mobile (hp pavilion zv5120us), purchased about 5 years ago (added 1GB RAM)... is yours older too?

I use a macbook to watch it now... not a very good solution...

Last edited by vajorie (2009-06-10 17:40:09)

vs.taras

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Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 5

Re: hulu freezes firefox & opera

I have an AMD athlon 64 4200+ desktop
so its probably not a cpu problem
i was thinking it was memory, have yet to do a memtest though

vajorie

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Registered: 2009-03-12

Posts: 66

Re: hulu freezes firefox & opera

memory might not be it... mine "passed" from memtest. would you post if yours is due to memory problem? thanks

Last edited by vajorie (2009-06-18 12:35:33)