[ale] Firefox Keeps Freezing After Flash Upgrade

[Marc Ferguson]

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.
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