[wplug] flash player crashing in firefox

[Brian W. Snyder]

Justin Ehrlichman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am running PClinuxOS 2007 and I am having some issues with flash. It 
> seems to crash intermitently when viewing youtube videos. I am running 
> firefox version 2.0.0.12 and downloaded version 9.0.115.0 of flash from 
> adobe's website. Has anyone every run into something like this?


I've had similar problems. The only commonality I've found was that my 
'older versions of the distro' had the problem, but the newer ones did not.

For example: FF 2.0.0.latest running Flash 9.latest - Flash crashed the 
browser often on my laptop (Mandrake 9.2, 2.4 kernel) and an alternate 
desktop (Slack 10.2, 2.4 kernel). However, Slackware 12 with FF 
2.0.0.latest and Flash 9.latest on both my other desktop and other 
laptop, Firefox never crashes with Flash.

Again, that's the only thing I've observed and it looks like this is 
unlikely in your case.

In the older systems, I tried putting the flashplayer.xpt and 
libflashplayer.so in every Mozilla plugin directory I could find but to 
no avail.

My workaround ended up being keeping copies of both the Flash 7 and 
Flash 9 files listed above and dropping them into the my home 
.mozilla/plugins/ directory as needed. I noticed that the browser would 
only crash when Flash 8 or higher was required. If a site didn't have 
such a restriction, both 7 and 9 would work fine. The downside, of 
course, was that it was a nuisance to switch back and forth and copy the 
  two Flash 7 or  Flash 9 files to the Mozilla plugins directory and 
that I could not view any sites that specifically required Flash 8 or 
above; no great loss there, really. lol

I don't know if any of this helps but maybe if enough people share what 
their problems are, perhaps a common trait can be found.

All of this made me think of trying Gnash. Has anyone tried it?

-- 

Brian

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