[ale] Firefox Keeps Freezing After Flash Upgrade

[Marc Ferguson]

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Marc F.

"..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come.."
-Rev1:4


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Joey Rutledge <joey at joeyrutledge.com>wrote:
>
>> Marc Ferguson wrote, On 10/22/2008 06:12 AM:
>> > Hi Fellas,
>> >
>> > I need a bit of help with figuring out why my Firefox keeps crashing.
>> > I did a "strace firefox" and the results are posted here:
>> > http://rafb.net/p/G6lnpk54.html
>> >
>> > I originally wanted to figure out why Fedora's audio seemed to be
>> > single-threaded.  I can play one audio device at a time.  If I had
>> > Banshee playing, I could watch any YouTube videos (well I could, but
>> > there would be no sound).  So; I asked someone from the #fedora IRC
>> > and they told me to install "libflashsupport.i386" because Flash 9
>> > doesn't support pulseaudio too well.  So; I installed it and it
>> > worked.  Very soon after it played on Flash file, I tried to play
>> > another and my browser froze.  Since then I've copied and pasted the
>> > latest Flash 10.so into my firefox plugin's directory and the same
>> > thing happens?
>> >
>> > I saw in the output (on line 67, 368, 369, etc) that it's referencing
>> > my download folder for flash 10, why?
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Marc F.
>> >
>> > "..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to
>> > come.." -Rev1:4
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>> This seems really similar to an issue I had recently.  Depending on what
>> version of Firefox you are using there is a known bug for version 3.0.1
>> (maybe others?) and windowless mode SWF files.  For me my browser would
>> crash anytime I went to a site that had flash ads, such as
>> wunderground.com or cnn.com.
>>
>> I am not necessarily saying that your issue is the same but it might be
>> worth an investigation.  Basically in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg (create it if
>> you don't have one) you set "WindowlessDisable = 1"
>>
>> Here is the page that talks about the bug:
>> http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/08/windowless_mode_fix.html
>>
>> Joey
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>
> Thanks Joey.  I'll give it a try when I get home today.
>

I didn't find that file on my system.  I then went to #fedora to ask and
they lead me to this site,
http://fedorasolved.org/browser-solutions/flash/?searchterm=flash.  As of
date I haven't fixed the problem yet and I'm even more confused now than
ever.  All of this crashing happened after I installed
"libflashsupport.i386".  Damn, I wish I didn't.  Is there a way to go back
to status quo?  I already removed libflashsupport - how about my firefox
config files?  Thanks.
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