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evol

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2007-06-27

Posts: 53

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Flash + Firefox = Severe issues

I'm suffering pretty severe issues with Firefox and Flash player. .

Essentially, I can watch a video on for say, youtube with no problem. But when I go to click another video, or click a back button - Firefox at least 50% of the time completely locks up and I have to kill it from the terminal. Once that occurs and I restart firefox, the instances of it locking up seem to increase.

This has not been limited to Arch, I suffered the exact same problems with Flash 9 & Firefox ih Ubuntu & Fedora.

A little bit of googling and it appears this problem is fairly widespread for linux users - are many of you suffering from this and is there any information on the exact cause?

Just got Opera and will see how things pan out.

Cheers

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nikron

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Registered: 2007-05-15

Posts: 130

Re: Flash + Firefox = Severe issues

Try a newer flash version.  The version Arch currently uses has a security bug anyway.  The new version doesn't seem to be as bad with youtube, etc.

>_<  Actually it was just updated half a day ago, so uh, try the new version.

Last edited by nikron (2007-07-17 14:15:24)

Login_Here

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Registered: 2007-06-27

Posts: 24

Re: Flash + Firefox = Severe issues

I've been having the same problem, so I decided to get the new version after seeing this thread. I upgraded, restarted Firefox, went to YouTube and started watching a video. After the video started playing I clicked on one of the Related-links, and surprise, Firefox locked up completely and I had to kill it from a terminal.

Last edited by Login_Here (2007-07-17 14:28:09)

matt_man22

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From: Boston, MA

Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 54

Re: Flash + Firefox = Severe issues

I believe this happens across all distros and is Flash related.  The best solution I found out of everything is to open a random YouTube video on a tab and always leave that tab open during your session.  You can open and close as many tabs as you want with Flash, as long as you keep that first one open.

enrique

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Registered: 2005-10-25

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Re: Flash + Firefox = Severe issues

Do you run any compositing sw (e.g. beryl, xcompmgr)? I saw another thread about it, and there was a simple fix for it.

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Kind regards, enrique

evol

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2007-06-27

Posts: 53

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Re: Flash + Firefox = Severe issues

Thanks for all the replies so far. Opera is appearing more stable with flash thus far, but that could change.

Matt I'm going to try that technique out, cheers.

Enrique, I'm just running plain fluxbox.

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