[ale] Firefox Keeps Freezing After Flash Upgrade

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 13:46:38 EDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 13:28 -0400, Marc Ferguson wrote:

>         
>         
>         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.
> 
> So; just to give an update.  I removed "flash-player" through my
> package manager (flash version 10) and then installed it again.  My
> firefox still crashes, but it seems to crash only after I leave a site
> that flash was playing on.  Before; it would crash after playing 1
> flash movie - now (for example: YouTube) I can watch multiple flash
> movies, but if I go to another web site it'll crash.
> 
> Is there a way to reset this craziness.  I've already uninstalled
> "libflashsupport", but that's where it all started going south!
> Thanks for any help.
> __

Try rpm -e firefox libflashsupport flash-plugin
yum install firefox flash-plugin



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