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

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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

   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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