Re: [gentoo-amd64] firefox-bin crashing a few times every day

["Drake Donahue" <donahue95@comcast.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] firefox-bin crashing a few times every day


> Hi all,
>   Just a thanks up front for all your help so far. Possibly the
> crashing is behind me. I appreciate all the attention. Now, on to
> Flash and Java...
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 11:32 AM, Drake Donahue <donahue95@comcast.net> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>> >
>>
>> type about:plugins in the firefox url window and enter, see if Shockwave
>> Flash is listed followed by File name npwrapper.libflashplayer.so   --you
>> haven't mentioned installing  nspluginwrapper
>>
>
> Drake,
>   Indeed, somewhere along the way Beso suggested removing things to
> look for what might be causing the crash. nspluginwrapper was one I
> had removed. I reinstalled it and now going to the video.yahoo.com
> page doesn't cause a warning anymore. However when I try to play any
> video I see the first couple of frames and then I see a gray box drawn
> over the top. Audio continues as the video plays but I no longer see
> any video.
>
>   Lest I sound like I'm complaining I do think we're making progress.
> I rebooted the machine and started the 64-bit browser. Always before
> if I created a second tab and tried to rearrange tabs the browser
> crashed. It no longer does that. (Maybe simply because I;m using the
> 64-bit version. I don't know...)
>
>   I wonder if I should be deleting the .mozilla directory to properly
> test this stuff?
>
>   OK, so here's what I'm currently seeing in about:plugins:
>
> Shockwave Flash
> npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
>
> Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible
> npwrapper.nphelix.so
>
> NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 0.9.91.4
> npwrapper.so
>
> VLC Multimedia Plugin
> libvlcplugin.so
>
> QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7
> mplayerplug-in-qt.so
>
> mplayerplug-in 3.45
> mplayerplug-in.so
>

I think that you have now gotten Firefox to connect to a Flash plug-in; 
however the plugin has a problem.
Suggestion:
Visit 
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/static/Linux/ShockwaveFlash/English.html
and download Option 1, the tar.gz file
extract libflashplayer.so from the downloaded file and place it in 
/opt/netscape/plugins ( in other words, create 
/opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so )
then run
nspluginwrapper -i /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
This should produce a nice new up to date  file:
/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
for firefox to use.
This is based on how i got flash to work in 64 bit firefox (including at 
video.yahoo.com).

Btw my experience with helix/realplayer has been more positive than Beso's. 
I emerged realplayer and the nspluginwrapper in sequence followed by the 
flash steps above and all went well.

My only real player complaint is not bewing able to get full screen.
May be related to not doing a java plugin.


>   Currently if I go to this page Java isn't working at all.
>
> http://www.prophet.net/analyze/javacharts.jsp
>
>   Not my biggest problem but I need to solve it.
>
> STATUS:
>
> 1) Firefox crashing - Possibly fixed. Thanks!
>
> 2) Flash video - gray box. This is what I'd like to solve first if 
> possible.
>
> 3) Java - not seen by the browser. Have done very little work on it
> yet but building a little on Jeffery's idea I tried to do it with the
> currently installed version of Java:
>
> lightning ~ # slocate libjavaplugin_oji.so
> /opt/emul-linux-x86-java-1.6.0.03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> /opt/emul-linux-x86-java-1.6.0.03/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> lightning ~ #
>
> mark@lightning ~ $ ls -la .mozilla/plugins
> ls: cannot access .mozilla/plugins: No such file or directory
> mark@lightning ~ $
>
> So I have no .mozilla/plugins directory to build the link. I tried
> adding a plugins directory and creating a link as shown but the
> Prophet web site still says no Java.
>
> mark@lightning ~/.mozilla/plugins $ ls -la
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4096 2007-11-12 12:56 .
> drwx------ 4 mark users 4096 2007-11-12 12:56 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark users   70 2007-11-12 12:56 libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
> /opt/emul-linux-x86-java-1.6.0.03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> mark@lightning ~/.mozilla/plugins $
>
> I used the first link but maybe that's wrong since it points at the
> emul-linux directory?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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