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rzrscm

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Registered: 2012-11-17

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[SOLVED] flashplugin issues

Since a recent update, I've been having problems with Flash in Firefox.  Initially, I was just getting constant warnings that my Flash plugin was out of date.  Now, as of today, Flash is constantly crashing.  Everything's up to date.

Last edited by rzrscm (2015-02-09 20:01:29)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] flashplugin issues

What do you need flash for?
Have you tried disabling all plugins?

Thaodan

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Registered: 2012-04-28

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Re: [SOLVED] flashplugin issues

try to remove ~/.mozilla/firefox/<your profile>/pluginreg.dat

if this didn't hels posts your output of firefox here when using flash

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rzrscm

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Registered: 2012-11-17

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Re: [SOLVED] flashplugin issues

I did try removing pluginreg.dat earlier...Didn't seem to make a difference...This is what I get when Flash crashes...

[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
plugin-container: xcb_io.c:274: poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed.
[14233] WARNING: pipe error (65): Connection reset by peer: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 451

###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel::Call] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv


###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel::Call] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv


###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel::Call] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv


###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel::Call] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv


###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel::Call] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv


###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel::Call] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv


###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel::Call] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

ReiserFS

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Registered: 2014-02-01

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Re: [SOLVED] flashplugin issues

Try freshplayerplugin(aur)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] flashplugin issues

It may sound silly, but have you since tried a system update and restart of the browser?  A couple days ago I had a lot of issues with firefox complaining about flash and blocking all flash content due to the flash player being outdated.

I ran a full update and saw flashplugin was upgraded (to 11.2.202.442-1), but still got the errors until I restarted firefox.  This struck me as quite odd as firefox hadn't been updated in any of the intervening time - but my only suspicion is that firefox started requiring a newer version of flashplugin which took a little longer to get to the repos and/or my mirror so the two were out of sync.  Of course I could be crazy too - it's hard to interpret such an isolated incident.

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rzrscm

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Registered: 2012-11-17

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Re: [SOLVED] flashplugin issues

It may sound silly, but have you since tried a system update and restart of the browser?  A couple days ago I had a lot of issues with firefox complaining about flash and blocking all flash content due to the flash player being outdated.

I ran a full update and saw flashplugin was upgraded (to 11.2.202.442-1), but still got the errors until I restarted firefox.  This struck me as quite odd as firefox hadn't been updated in any of the intervening time - but my only suspicion is that firefox started requiring a newer version of flashplugin which took a little longer to get to the repos and/or my mirror so the two were out of sync.  Of course I could be crazy too - it's hard to interpret such an isolated incident.

Yeah...I've updated and restarted the browser a few times since it started.  Nothing I've tried, including advice from here, seems to be working.  Even when Flash isn't giving me warnings and being blocked, it's crashing.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] flashplugin issues

Do you have hardware acceleration enabled? it tends to give problems, try to disable it

rzrscm

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Registered: 2012-11-17

Posts: 95

Re: [SOLVED] flashplugin issues

Do you have hardware acceleration enabled? it tends to give problems, try to disable it

Okay...That seems to have done the trick.  I noticed yesterday that I stopped getting the other errors and everything was just crashing.  So, I guess my problem is solved.

Thanks, everybody.