Video playback in Firfox/Safari crashes entire system

Question

My trusty little iBook is now almost 4 years old - after two logic board fixes, it seemed to be running fine. Then one day while repairing permissions using Onyx under Panther (10.3.9), the whole system crashed. Since then I've had to downgrade to the original Jaguar (10.2.4) install - I can't seem to get it to upgrade back to Panther with any sort of stability.
While I can live with Panther (God I miss Exposé!), I find that almost every time I view any video within a webpage in Firefox, either the browser crashes or, worse, the video freezes, the audio sputters, the machine becomes completely unresponsive, and the only way out is to do a hard reboot. I'm thinking maybe I have some video card issues??
Any help/suggestions would be great!!

Answer 1

Not enough space. The figure that is bandied about is 15% of the total capacity should be left free. On a 60 GB hard drive, that means 9 GB should be left available.
If you've done several Archive and Installs, you will have a folder called Previous Systems. You could safely delete that and regain some space.
Have you tried repairing the hard drive (not just permissions) by either by booting into Safe Mode OR by starting up from the Jaguar Install Disc by inserting the disc and restarting your computer, holding down the C key as the startup chime is ending. Then choose Installer > Open Disk Utility and select the hard drive in the left column. Choose the First Aid tab. Click Repair Disk to test and repair the hard drive.
Once you have repaired the hard drive with either Safe Mode or the Install disc's Disk Utility, then start up normally and repair permissions from Disk Utility in the Utilities folder on the hard drive.
Once you've deleted the Previous Systems folder and repaired the hard drive, you can try the Panther installation again and see if you have any better luck with a new Archive and Install.
Good luck.