I am running Ubuntu 12.04LTS 64 bit on an AMD Athlon Dual Core 4200 64 bit with 4 Gb of RAM
Ever since the routine update which gave me Linux 35 (and continuing after a further update to Linux 36, my internet browsers are giving trouble; I use both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chromium and the problem appears in both. It does not appear if I use Windows XP on the same machine. Those facts lead me to believe that the problem lies with Ubuntu somewhere.
What happens is that whenever I have browsed through several pages on the web, the browsers suddenly freeze. They freeze so firmly that I cannot shut the machine down as I cannot select anything and the usual keyboard Killall etc cannot be accessed. Thus I have been reduced to turning the power off and, after that, I sometimes need 3 or 4 further reboots before my wired internet connection is made.
I dont know that much about computers, but it has all the symptoms of the machine running out of RAM. The more data intensive the pages I load, the earlier it happens; and selecting anything with movies seems to make it happen even earlier.
One one occasion (and only one) I suddenly got an error message saying Firefox was about to crash and would I like to report it before it happened. I took advantage of that, so at least someone in the Linux world knows what I was doing at the time. All the other arisings have left my machine frozen without warning
Any ideas out there?
Thanks
Keith Walters
Ever since the routine update which gave me Linux 35 (and continuing after a further update to Linux 36, my internet browsers are giving trouble; I use both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chromium and the problem appears in both. It does not appear if I use Windows XP on the same machine. Those facts lead me to believe that the problem lies with Ubuntu somewhere.
What happens is that whenever I have browsed through several pages on the web, the browsers suddenly freeze. They freeze so firmly that I cannot shut the machine down as I cannot select anything and the usual keyboard Killall etc cannot be accessed. Thus I have been reduced to turning the power off and, after that, I sometimes need 3 or 4 further reboots before my wired internet connection is made.
I dont know that much about computers, but it has all the symptoms of the machine running out of RAM. The more data intensive the pages I load, the earlier it happens; and selecting anything with movies seems to make it happen even earlier.
One one occasion (and only one) I suddenly got an error message saying Firefox was about to crash and would I like to report it before it happened. I took advantage of that, so at least someone in the Linux world knows what I was doing at the time. All the other arisings have left my machine frozen without warning
Any ideas out there?
Thanks
Keith Walters