Chrome unresponsive for gmail and yahoo mail on Fedora 14

Some time back I switched from Firefox to Chrome on my Aspire One (running Fedora 14). I was impressed by how fast it is, and became a convert. Unfortunately, after some time it became unusable, with gmail and many other pages leaving Chrome unresponsive.

I tried many workarounds and 'solutions', removing my cache and configuration directories but still no joy.

I then began troubleshooting with strace - and noticed that the problem went away. This lead me to some more googling, and I found this post -

Issue 77274: Chrome 11 hangs on linux due to gecko-mediaplayer

The solution was as simple as removing gecko-mediaplayer


$ sudo yum erase gecko-mediaplayer