[gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

[gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

[Grant]

Does anyone else's Firefox crash whenever it hits a page with Flash on
it?  If I start a new .mozilla folder and always choose to not
download Flash, everything is fine.  As soon as I download Flash, it
starts crashing whenever it sees a Flash file.

- Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

[Bruno Lustosa]

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On 9/22/05, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone else's Firefox crash whenever it hits a page with Flash on
> it? If I start a new .mozilla folder and always choose to not
> download Flash, everything is fine. As soon as I download Flash, it
> starts crashing whenever it sees a Flash file.
>

Flash is working fine here, although I use the flashblock extension to be
able to choose what flash content I want to see. How are you installing the
flash plugin?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

[Martin S]

I find that Firefox has become much more unstable, but i can't figure
out what i installed latest. haven't really installed much of anything
at all lately.
it crashes on most pages sooner or later - even those it has rendered before :(
Anyone else seen this?

MArtin S

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

[neil]

Martin S wrote:

> it crashes on most pages sooner or later - even those it has rendered before :(
> Anyone else seen this?

No. Not at all. In fact, I have never seen Firefox crash.


Be lucky,

Neil
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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

[Grant]

> > Does anyone else's Firefox crash whenever it hits a page with Flash on
> > it?  If I start a new .mozilla folder and always choose to not
> > download Flash, everything is fine.  As soon as I download Flash, it
> > starts crashing whenever it sees a Flash file.
> >
>
> Flash is working fine here, although I use the flashblock extension to be
> able to choose what flash content I want to see. How are you installing the
> flash plugin?

I'm using the automatic download and install via Firefox.  It used to
crash on only some flash, but now it's all.

- Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

[David Helstroom]

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Grant wrote:

>>>Does anyone else's Firefox crash whenever it hits a page with Flash on
>>>it?  If I start a new .mozilla folder and always choose to not
>>>download Flash, everything is fine.  As soon as I download Flash, it
>>>starts crashing whenever it sees a Flash file.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Flash is working fine here, although I use the flashblock extension to be
>>able to choose what flash content I want to see. How are you installing the
>>flash plugin?
>>    
>>
>
>I'm using the automatic download and install via Firefox.  It used to
>crash on only some flash, but now it's all.
>
>- Grant
>
>  
>
The site:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency
is your friend.

    Dave.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

[Grant]

> >>>Does anyone else's Firefox crash whenever it hits a page with Flash on
> >>>it?  If I start a new .mozilla folder and always choose to not
> >>>download Flash, everything is fine.  As soon as I download Flash, it
> >>>starts crashing whenever it sees a Flash file.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Flash is working fine here, although I use the flashblock extension to be
> >>able to choose what flash content I want to see. How are you installing the
> >>flash plugin?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I'm using the automatic download and install via Firefox.  It used to
> >crash on only some flash, but now it's all.
> >
> >- Grant
> >
> >
> >
> The site:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency
> is your friend.
>
>     Dave.

I think adding this to /usr/bin/firefox has fixed it:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

Thanks!

- Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

[Graham Murray]

Martin S <shieldfire@gmail.com> writes:

> I find that Firefox has become much more unstable, but i can't figure
> out what i installed latest. haven't really installed much of anything
> at all lately.
> it crashes on most pages sooner or later - even those it has rendered before :(
> Anyone else seen this?

Yes, I have seen the same. It does seem to happen more often if either
the page has a java applet or flash, or if I have previously visited
such pages in the same browser session. It is only quite a recent
thing, firefox used to rock solid, but I cannot say what change caused
this as I run ~x86 and frequently `emerge -Du world`.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

[Dimitar Toshev]

On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 14:13 +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
> Martin S <shieldfire@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I find that Firefox has become much more unstable, but i can't figure
> > out what i installed latest. haven't really installed much of anything
> > at all lately.
> > it crashes on most pages sooner or later - even those it has rendered before :(
> > Anyone else seen this?
> 
> Yes, I have seen the same. It does seem to happen more often if either
> the page has a java applet or flash, or if I have previously visited
> such pages in the same browser session. It is only quite a recent
> thing, firefox used to rock solid, but I cannot say what change caused
> this as I run ~x86 and frequently `emerge -Du world`.

It used to happen here. Most probably it has something to do with Flash,
as Firefox hasn't crashed even once since I removed it. Can't say
anything about JavaApplets, though. So few websites seem to have them
nowadays.

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