Updated to XFree86 4.4 now Flash crashes Firefox & Mozilla

sygin · 06-09-2004, 07:58 AM

Hi People,

I have upgraded my Mandrake Official 10 XFree86 to 4.4.

Now when I open a webpage in Firefox or Mozilla that contains Flash the browser dissapears. When I launch the browser from a consol I get no error message.

I am using version 7 of the Flash plugin (about:plugins).
Please help.

Thanks
Sygin

mtb · 06-09-2004, 08:06 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sygin
Hi People,

I have upgraded my Mandrake Official 10 XFree86 to 4.4.

Now when I open a webpage in Firefox or Mozilla that contains Flash the browser dissapears. When I launch the browser from a consol I get no error message.

I am using version 7 of the Flash plugin (aboutlugins).
Please help.

Thanks
Sygin

I had the same problem when running firefox with flash 6 and xfree 4.3 at 15 bits per pixel. Maybe you are using 15 bpp depth ?

sygin · 06-09-2004, 08:13 AM

"I had the same problem when running firefox with flash 6 and xfree 4.3 at 15 bits per pixel. Maybe you are using 15 bpp depth ?"

No I am using 24 bpp.

Thanks for the prompt reply.
Sygin

sygin · 06-11-2004, 02:17 AM

I have found that if I open a Flash .swf file in Firefox it runs perfectly. It only crashes the browser when I open an html file that contains a Flash file. Realy confusing.

I do get an error from the consol:
7971 Segmentation fault

Thanks
Sygin

BleachedShut · 02-14-2006, 11:56 AM

I'm having the same exact problem. It took me a while to figure out it was flash that was crashing my browser.

The only difference is, I'm on x.org, not xfree, so it must be a firefox bug and not from xserver.

[EDIT] Now that I think about it, maybe it's a graphics driver conflict with firefox? I haven't really tried flash with my other browsers, though.

[EDIT] Ehm, just get Adblock Plus (I read about this in some other forum, but I unfortunately forgot which). Solved it for me.