Firefox (gecko) Crash on Flash

[ShareDora]

Is anyone experiencing random Firefox crashes when loading Flash videos in F8? It complains about gecko crashing. Check out the attachment for a crash report.

[stevea]

Which flash plugin are you using?

[nix4me]

I had same problem when i used the rpm or yum from adobe. Instead I downloaded the tar.gz installer and that has worked perfectly. No crashes since.

Mark

[ShareDora]

Well, I downloaded the TAR package from Adobe, ran the installer and entered /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8/ for the installation directory. Too bad the crashes persist. F7 never crashed.

Here's the plugin information from about->plugins:

File name: /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

[screamin_jesus]

same here, crashes on random videos.

[stevea]

Very strange. I have F8.test3 upgraded to F8. I installed from the adobe rpm. I haven't seen a crash.

Could someone post a link to a crash-causing flash ?
Also point your browser to this URL

about:plugins

and this lists the actual plugins the browser sees.

I have nspluginwrapper installed so firefox looks in /usr/lib/mozille/plugins-wrapped and
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8/plugins-wrapper (yes - even on the 32bit linux).

So my url

about:plugins

lists this package.

Shockwave Flash

    File name: nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes

Note that *IF* you have nspluginwrapper installed then firefox will ONLY look in the .../plugins-wrapped directories and will NOT look in .../plugins.


To correct the problem either run "mozilla--plugin-config" to create the wrappers OR remove the nspluginwrapper package.

[mlavalle]

This is also happening on my Fedora 8 (32-bit) system. I can display some Flash applets with-out issue, and others fail. The following one fails consistently on my system: http://www.atomfilms.com/film/battle_hoth.jsp

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

[unknownmosquito]

I have the same results as mlavalle, and with the same filename & flash version.

[ubbermess]

Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes

[FriedChips]

Yup, I also am having this same problem. I had problems in F8T3 with the flash-plugin rpm, so I installed from tar. No problems from the tar installation until just recently. Firefox crashes randomly on youtube videos. ( same gecko error ) restarting firefox and choosing restore session works just fine though, you can pick up at the same page you left off and keep going until it crashes again...

[Waggoneer]

Same issue here.

Here is what I can read in the bug file, before the memory dump info...

System: Linux 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 #1 SMP Thu Nov 8 21:41:26 EST 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Nodoka
Icon Theme: Fedora

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0



----------- .xsession-errors (51 sec old) ---------------------
** (nm-applet:2711): WARNING **: Error in get_property: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
** (nm-applet:2711): WARNING **: Error in get_property: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
start time: Tue Dec 26 06:00:00 2006
closing
libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error.
(org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
error getting update info: 'module' object has no attribute 'GroupError'
error getting update info: 'module' object has no attribute 'GroupError'
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Loading "priorities" plugin
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

[reidr]

Originally Posted by ShareDora

Is anyone experiencing random Firefox crashes when loading Flash videos in F8? It complains about gecko crashing. Check out the attachment for a crash report.

Are you (and others getting crashes) using the Flashblock extension? When I had it enabled and clicked on the icon to play the star wars video mentioned below, I got an immediate crash. With it disabled, the video played fine. Although, it still crashed on me once in several tries. There may be other issues at play here.... I'm going to run with Flashblock disabled for awhile and see if my crash count goes down.

[Perfex]

Same problem using Epiphany.. I am using the package from adobe.. sent the errors in via the bug dialog.

This is just a random youtube video I chose

Here is the error dialog:

Distribution: Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
Gnome Release: 2.20.1 2007-10-15 (Red Hat, Inc)
BugBuddy Version: 2.20.1

System: Linux 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 13:55:12 EDT 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: Permissive
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: GNOME_alternatives

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0



----------- .xsession-errors (411 sec old) ---------------------
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9a98458: NP_GetMIMEDescription
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9a98458: NP_GetMIMEDescription return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9a98458: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9a98458: NP_GetValue: returning plugin name.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9a98458: NP_GetValue return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9a98458: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9a98458: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9a98458: NP_GetValue return
CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...
** (evolution:2854): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution --component=mail %s
** (evolution:2854): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution
Loading Spamassasin as the default junk plugin

[linuxnative]

Mine is crashing also on flash. The difference is, it locks up my x session. I can't even do ctrl+alt+backspace. I can still move my mouse, but I get no response when I "click" on something. THis is getting frustrating. I guess I should just do my job, and quit surfing.

[Jbanicar]

Lol, firstly, that Star Wars video made me laugh.

But in all seriousness, it didn't crash for me. I crash randomly on YouTube videos