[gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[Iain Buchanan]

Hi,

I can't seem to access any pages with firefox that have flash on them.
I have mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9.  The little spinning "load" indicator
just gets stuck, and I can't do anything but `killall firefox-bin`.

I tried re-emerging mozilla-firefox and netscape-flash, but it had no
effect.

I did once upon a time have this working... any suggestions?

thanks,
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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[Tim Igoe]

Quoting Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>:

> Hi,
>
> I can't seem to access any pages with firefox that have flash on them.
> I have mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9.  The little spinning "load" indicator
> just gets stuck, and I can't do anything but `killall firefox-bin`.
>
> I tried re-emerging mozilla-firefox and netscape-flash, but it had no
> effect.

I get this exact same problem - it'll work fine for a little bit, then 
once its gone, I have to kill flash (rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/*) and 
re-install it. It'll work for  a bit then go again. Very annoying as it 
used to work, but my hard disk died so I was forced to re-install :(
>
> I did once upon a time have this working... any suggestions?
>
> thanks,
> --
> Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au>
>
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>
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>
>
Tim


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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[Iain Buchanan]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:27 +0000, Tim Igoe wrote:
> Quoting Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can't seem to access any pages with firefox that have flash on them.
> > I have mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9.  The little spinning "load" indicator
> > just gets stuck, and I can't do anything but `killall firefox-bin`.
> >
> > I tried re-emerging mozilla-firefox and netscape-flash, but it had no
> > effect.
> 
> I get this exact same problem - it'll work fine for a little bit, then 
> once its gone, I have to kill flash (rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/*) and 
> re-install it. It'll work for  a bit then go again. Very annoying as it 
> used to work, but my hard disk died so I was forced to re-install :(

I see there is a new firefox (1.5.0.1) so maybe that will work...
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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[Iain Buchanan]

If you're having flash / firefox problems, upgrade firefox to 1.5.0.1!

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:27 +0000, Tim Igoe wrote:
> > Quoting Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>:
> > 
> > > I can't seem to access any pages with firefox that have flash on them.
> > > I have mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9.  The little spinning "load" indicator
> > > just gets stuck, and I can't do anything but `killall firefox-bin`.
> > 
> > I get this exact same problem - it'll work fine for a little bit, then 
> > once its gone, I have to kill flash (rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/*) and 
> > re-install it.
> 
> I see there is a new firefox (1.5.0.1) so maybe that will work...

It worked.  I can now access the flash pages that weren't working
recently!

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[Tim Igoe]

Iain Buchanan wrote:

>If you're having flash / firefox problems, upgrade firefox to 1.5.0.1!
>
>On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:27 +0000, Tim Igoe wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Quoting Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I can't seem to access any pages with firefox that have flash on them.
>>>>I have mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9.  The little spinning "load" indicator
>>>>just gets stuck, and I can't do anything but `killall firefox-bin`.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I get this exact same problem - it'll work fine for a little bit, then 
>>>once its gone, I have to kill flash (rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/*) and 
>>>re-install it.
>>>      
>>>
>>I see there is a new firefox (1.5.0.1) so maybe that will work...
>>    
>>
>
>It worked.  I can now access the flash pages that weren't working
>recently!
>
>  
>

I'll try it, and see how it goes :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[Tim Igoe]

Tim Igoe wrote:
> Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
>> If you're having flash / firefox problems, upgrade firefox to 1.5.0.1!
>>
>> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:27 +0000, Tim Igoe wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Quoting Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>:
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>> I can't seem to access any pages with firefox that have flash on
>>>>> them.
>>>>> I have mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9.  The little spinning "load" indicator
>>>>> just gets stuck, and I can't do anything but `killall firefox-bin`.
>>>>>       
>>>> I get this exact same problem - it'll work fine for a little bit,
>>>> then once its gone, I have to kill flash (rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/*)
>>>> and re-install it.
>>>>     
>>> I see there is a new firefox (1.5.0.1) so maybe that will work...
>>>   
>>
>> It worked.  I can now access the flash pages that weren't working
>> recently!
>>
>>  
>>
>
> I'll try it, and see how it goes :)
>
It didn't help me :( still crash soemtimes on flash movies. Sometimes it
works, but others it just locks firefox up, only way out of it is to
kill it and remove flash. Annoying, but not the end of the world.

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[Cláudio Henrique]

firefox + flash used to be troublesome with transparency. are you
using transparency?

On 2/11/06, Tim Igoe <tim@igoe.me.uk> wrote:
> Tim Igoe wrote:
> > Iain Buchanan wrote:
> >
> >> If you're having flash / firefox problems, upgrade firefox to 1.5.0.1!
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:27 +0000, Tim Igoe wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Quoting Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I can't seem to access any pages with firefox that have flash on
> >>>>> them.
> >>>>> I have mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9.  The little spinning "load" indicator
> >>>>> just gets stuck, and I can't do anything but `killall firefox-bin`.
> >>>>>
> >>>> I get this exact same problem - it'll work fine for a little bit,
> >>>> then once its gone, I have to kill flash (rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/*)
> >>>> and re-install it.
> >>>>
> >>> I see there is a new firefox (1.5.0.1) so maybe that will work...
> >>>
> >>
> >> It worked.  I can now access the flash pages that weren't working
> >> recently!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I'll try it, and see how it goes :)
> >
> It didn't help me :( still crash soemtimes on flash movies. Sometimes it
> works, but others it just locks firefox up, only way out of it is to
> kill it and remove flash. Annoying, but not the end of the world.
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[Tim Igoe]

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Cláudio Henrique wrote:
> firefox + flash used to be troublesome with transparency. are you
> using transparency?
>   
Nope, tried it and gave up due to lack of usefulness from the ATi
drivers when fluff mode was on.
> On 2/11/06, Tim Igoe <tim@igoe.me.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Tim Igoe wrote:
>>     
>>> Iain Buchanan wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> If you're having flash / firefox problems, upgrade firefox to 1.5.0.1!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:27 +0000, Tim Igoe wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Quoting Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> I can't seem to access any pages with firefox that have flash on
>>>>>>> them.
>>>>>>> I have mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9.  The little spinning "load" indicator
>>>>>>> just gets stuck, and I can't do anything but `killall firefox-bin`.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> I get this exact same problem - it'll work fine for a little bit,
>>>>>> then once its gone, I have to kill flash (rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/*)
>>>>>> and re-install it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I see there is a new firefox (1.5.0.1) so maybe that will work...
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> It worked.  I can now access the flash pages that weren't working
>>>> recently!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I'll try it, and see how it goes :)
>>>
>>>       
>> It didn't help me :( still crash soemtimes on flash movies. Sometimes it
>> works, but others it just locks firefox up, only way out of it is to
>> kill it and remove flash. Annoying, but not the end of the world.
>>
>> --
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>> tim@igoe.me.uk
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>>     
>
>   


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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[Christoph Eckert]

> It didn't help me :( still crash soemtimes on flash movies. Sometimes
> it works, but others it just locks firefox up, only way out of it is
> to kill it and remove flash. Annoying, but not the end of the world.

kill all apps which use your OSS audio device /dev/dsp. I guess some 
soundserver is blocking it and firefox simply waits for the device to 
be freed.

If this helps then ensure to have a recent ALSA version which does 
softwaremixing by default and ask the firefox developers to switch from 
OSS to ALSA.


Best regards


ce

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On 2/13/06, Christoph Eckert <ce@christeck.de> wrote:
>
>
> > It didn't help me :( still crash soemtimes on flash movies. Sometimes
> > it works, but others it just locks firefox up, only way out of it is
> > to kill it and remove flash. Annoying, but not the end of the world.
>
> kill all apps which use your OSS audio device /dev/dsp. I guess some
> soundserver is blocking it and firefox simply waits for the device to
> be freed.
>
> If this helps then ensure to have a recent ALSA version which does
> softwaremixing by default and ask the firefox developers to switch from
> OSS to ALSA.
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> ce


I guess that's my problem too.  How do I know what's using OSS?  Can I just
disable it completely while leaving ALSA intact?

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

[Christoph Eckert]

> I guess that's my problem too.  How do I know what's using OSS?  Can
> I just disable it completely while leaving ALSA intact?

ALSA usually emulates OSS (it's an kernel building option).

You can switch it off, but unfortunately there are still a lot of apps 
which only can output sound via OSS: Firefox, Skype, you name it.


Best regards


ce

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