[ale] Firefox Keeps Freezing After Flash Upgrade

[Joey Rutledge]

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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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