Bug#344810: firefox: Crashes after installing flash plugin very frequent
Mohammad Halawah
Version: 1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Hello dear friend,
FF crashes after I installed flash plugin. so every time I access a
website that uses flash (and they are a lot), my FF crashes.
e.g. for websites that causes the crash:
www.wetter.de
www.linuxquestions.com
but this one doesn't crash
www.slashdot.org
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Mohammad
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Eric Dorland
> Package: firefox
> Version: 1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello dear friend,
>
> FF crashes after I installed flash plugin. so every time I access a
> website that uses flash (and they are a lot), my FF crashes.
> e.g. for websites that causes the crash:
> www.wetter.de
> www.linuxquestions.com
>
> but this one doesn't crash
> www.slashdot.org
Why is this a bug in Firefox and not a bug in the flash plugin? How
did you install the flashplugin?
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[KS]
> * Mohammad Halawah (mhal...@gmail.com) wrote:
> > Package: firefox
> > Version: 1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Hello dear friend,
> >
> > FF crashes after I installed flash plugin. so every time I access a
> > website that uses flash (and they are a lot), my FF crashes.
> > e.g. for websites that causes the crash:
> > www.wetter.de
> > www.linuxquestions.com
> >
> > but this one doesn't crash
> > www.slashdot.org
>
> Why is this a bug in Firefox and not a bug in the flash plugin? How
> did you install the flashplugin?
>
I have noticed the problem since atleast 2months. The crash after
loading a page containing flash is occasional but if user does any
interaction with the flash (right click, click control buttons, etc.)
Firefox crashes when the user tries to do *any* other action e.g. change
to different tab, close tab, etc.
I checked with a new profile and the problem is not there in my current
profile. I tried with both flashplugin-nonfree and flashplayer-mozilla
and the results are the same: crash.
However, checking for the existence of the problem with a vanilla
Firefox 1.5 (mozilla.org version) and the same plugins does not result
in a crash. Hence it seems that the problem is with some firefox patch
applied by debian.
Comment about the problem by other users can be found in the thread
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg03182.html
HTH,
/ks
[KS]
> tags 344810 unreproducible
> thanks
>
>
> Sorry, I us flashplugin-nonfree and I have no problems.
>
Steps to reproduce:
1. Create new profile
2. Go to http://www.macromedia.com/platform/
3. Click on the blue rectangle with "Watch the platform overview video" text
4. The video start playing.
5. Open new tab
6. Go back to the tab with video, and right click on any of the menu
links above the video, or on the video. Select "Settings", settings
window appears. Close window.
7. Now if you try to close the tab by clicking the "Close Tab" button,
Firefox hangs.
This is reproducible consistently on my system with
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051224
Debian/1.5.dfsg-3 Firefox/1.5
$ dpkg -l *flash* | grep ^ii
ii flashplayer-mozilla 7.0.61.0-0.1 Macromedia Flash Player
problem does not exist when a vanilla Firefox 1.5 version is tested.