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webofunni

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Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

Hi All,

  I was using the FF 3.0.10 came with ArchLinux pacman. Recenty I downloaded the latest FF from mozilla website and put that in /opt/firefox. I am able to do all other things in it except watching the full screen flash video from Youtube. The browser stucks when I click on the full screen option. But that is working fine in the old browser ( Gran paradiso ). I am not able to find the root cause of it. An idea ?

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Hohoho

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

And why did you do that? Why not use pacman/AUR? Besides, Firefox 3.5 is already in stable repo's.

Tyriel

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

Basically 3.5 in the repos so I would remove the one you got from mozilla and then type:

pacman -Sy firefox

Or you could have just done "pacman -Syu" assuming that you did not remove the pacman one.

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webofunni

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

I have done that now. But the situation become more worst. Now the pacman returns an error when I am using it.

(8/8) upgrading FireFox                             [##################################################################] 100%
sh: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
error: scriptlet failed to execute correctly
sh: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Also now the new FF that I installed crashes when I click on full screen option in YouTube. There is no warning or something the FF suddenly closes all the windows when I click on full screen option.

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wonder

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

upgrade your system. pacman -Syu

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webofunni

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

Ohh no

Now I am not able to boot in to my Arch linux. I tried both mutiuser and single user mode. I am getting following errors.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/AQ … directlink
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/R1 … directlink

Any way to fix this without reinstalling the system.

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wonder

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

You can boot from Arch installation CD, setup your network, mount your partition(s) to /mnt then run
pacman -Syu --root /mnt --dbpath /mnt/var/lib/pacman --cachedir /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg --logfile /mnt/var/log/pacman.log --config /mnt/etc/pacman.conf
or you can chroot into your system as described in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Boo … omplicated and then just run pacman -Syu

Last edited by wonder (2009-07-05 17:05:47)

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silvik

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

firefox 3.5 both repo and pgo from AUR crash when entering fullscreen in flash movies.
the fix is very simple:

launch firefox with: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 firefox

could someone patch the PKGBUILD to apply this very simple solution?

silvik

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15391

TheGrudge

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

launch firefox with: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 firefox

Yes that helped, thanks.
But it only happened with youtube flash movies, others were able to go fullscreen.

I got the following error messages in the console after the crash (cut off):

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/andi/.mozilla/plugins/libmks.so [libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]                                                                           
*** glibc detected *** firefox: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0xa8398020 ***                                                                                                                                                             
======= Backtrace: =========                                                                                                                                                                                                               
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7cbd281]                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7cbe4b5]                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1[0xaa912205]                                                                                                                                                                                                             
======= Memory map: ========                                                                                                                                                                                                               
08048000-0805a000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 136715     /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox                                                                                                                                                               
0805a000-0805b000 rwxp 00011000 08:02 136715     /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox                                                                                                                                                               
0805b000-0805c000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                                                                                                                                                                                     
a419b000-a4f06000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 176929     /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.185.18.14                                                                                                                                                           
a4f06000-a50f3000 rwxp 00d6a000 08:02 176929     /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.185.18.14   

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TheGrudge

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

Oh just wanted to mention that this bug only appears in firefox, not opera or konqueror.
So I guess it is not a flash problem, as mentioned in the bugreport?

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göteborg-johan

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

well, disabling hardware accelration in the flash settings solves this.

TheGrudge

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

But why is it only occurring in firefox?
I tested konqueror, opera and this gnome browser thinggy, they all work fine. Only firefox is crashing, so it can't be a general flash problem (or can it)?

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webofunni

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

You can boot from Arch installation CD, setup your network, mount your partition(s) to /mnt then run
pacman -Syu --root /mnt --dbpath /mnt/var/lib/pacman --cachedir /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg --logfile /mnt/var/log/pacman.log --config /mnt/etc/pacman.conf
or you can chroot into your system as described in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Boo … omplicated and then just run pacman -Syu

Thank you very much and yes I got my system back .

firefox 3.5 both repo and pgo from AUR crash when entering fullscreen in flash movies.
the fix is very simple:

launch firefox with: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 firefox

Thanks you silvik for the workaround.

I can see bug reports and forum threads at Firefox/NVIDIA/Adobe and other Linux distributions. It seems that nobody is not able identify which application contains the bug

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=1997651
https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/333127
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic … &t=1004005
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469439

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Cape

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

ok.. how can i make this fix permanent?
'couse i saw in other forums to add "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 firefox" to the file "/usr/lib/firefox-3.5/ -->firefox.sh <-- " . Unfortunately i don't have that file... instead i have "/usr/lib/firefox-3.5/run-mozilla.sh" ... tried with that file but it doesn't work

droog

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

ok.. how can i make this fix permanent?
'couse i saw in other forums to add "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 firefox" to the file "/usr/lib/firefox-3.5/ -->firefox.sh <-- " . Unfortunately i don't have that file... instead i have "/usr/lib/firefox-3.5/run-mozilla.sh" ... tried with that file but it doesn't work

in my ~/.bashrc i have

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

webofunni

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

ok.. how can i make this fix permanent?
'couse i saw in other forums to add "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 firefox" to the file "/usr/lib/firefox-3.5/ -->firefox.sh <-- " . Unfortunately i don't have that file... instead i have "/usr/lib/firefox-3.5/run-mozilla.sh" ... tried with that file but it doesn't work

You can try this :

run : which firefox and you will get something like this :

$ which firefox
/usr/local/bin/firefox

then move the original binary

mv /usr/local/bin/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox.org

then create a file called /usr/local/bin/firefox (   depends in the result of which ).

vi /usr/local/bin/firefox

add the content like :

#!/bin/bash
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/local/bin/firefox.org

then :

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/firefox

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Wilco

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

Is it still unknown what causes this bug?

Garns

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

Looks like a problem in the way firefox handles memory:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469439
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493541

I just rebuild with the patch from #493541, so far it works without crashing.

azul

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

Thank you very much silvik and webofunni! This was driving my crazy last night, haha

webofunni

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

Looks like a problem in the way firefox handles memory:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469439
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493541

I just rebuild with the patch from #493541, so far it works without crashing.

Any idea when arch repo will update the FF with that patch ?

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Archdevil

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

The problem still exists.....when can this be solved?

Regards,

Archie

TheGrudge

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

You can disable hardware acceleration in the flashplayer's settings dialog. This fixed the problem for me.

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TheGrudge

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

For me it is working again since the latest firefox update. I can have hardware acceleration turned on again...

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Garns

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Re: Not able to get the full screen in Youtube with latest firefox

For me it is working again since the latest firefox update. I can have hardware acceleration turned on again...

Works here as well. Makes sense, since Bug 493541 was fixed in xulrunner 1.9.1.3.