[ale] Firefox Keeps Freezing After Flash Upgrade - OT

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 21:08:37 EDT 2008 

--- Satan is my meat puppet.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> Personally I don't understand folks that don't like top posting.  When
> I'm reading emails in a thread I'm usually keeping up with them so would
> prefer to read the "top post" in latest email than read through all the
> stuff I'd already seen to get to it.   We can disagree on that and its
> clear different people on the list do.
>
> Top sigging, as you call it, is a completely different thing.  When I
> saw (and didn't comment) the first time he did it the post looked like
> its only intent was to proselytize but when I looked at the bottom I saw
> that there was an actual response.
>
> However, when he did it again it made it clear to me that the purpose in
> "top sigging" was indeed to make it prominent and thereby proselytize
> and I responded to that.
>
> How would he (or you) feel if every post I made had a "top sig" of
> "Allah Akbar" or "Satan is my Master"?  Or how would the conservatives
> on the list feel if every post had a "top sig" of "W destroyed America"?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:13 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Firefox Keeps Freezing After Flash Upgrade
>
> 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?'
>
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Marc F.
> >
> > "..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to
> > come.." -Rev1:4
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Marc Ferguson
> <marcferguson at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > ---
> > 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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> >       >
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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
> >       _______________________________________________
> >       Ale mailing list
> >       Ale at ale.org
> >       http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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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> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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