[ale] Firefox Keeps Freezing After Flash Upgrade

[Geoffrey]

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Do we really need this proselytizing at the beginning of posts?

Lighten up, we see all kind of sigs fly through the list.  Since you're 
top posting, what's wrong with top 'sigging?'

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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Marc
> Ferguson
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 1:28 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Firefox Keeps Freezing After Flash Upgrade
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> Marc F.
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> "..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to
> come.." -Rev1:4
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> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Marc F.
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> "..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to
> come.." -Rev1:4
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> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Joey Rutledge <joey at joeyrutledge.com>
> wrote:
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> 	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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> 
> 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.
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