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oib111

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Registered: 2009-06-20

Posts: 87

Firefox Crashing When Trying to Fullscreen Any Flash Video

Firefox 3.5.2 keeps crashing when I try to fullscreen any flash video. I tried using the old fix:

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

But I guess it doesn't work anymore. I can't downgrade because I just recently cleared my pacman cache, and hte most out of date mirror doesn't have Firefox 3.5.1. Does anyone have a fix or a link to a Firefox 3.5.1 download?

Peasantoid

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Registered: 2009-04-26

Posts: 928

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Re: Firefox Crashing When Trying to Fullscreen Any Flash Video

Try the Arch Rollback Machine.

edit: wrong URI

Last edited by Peasantoid (2009-08-23 02:51:47)

theapodan

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 116

Re: Firefox Crashing When Trying to Fullscreen Any Flash Video

Have you tried disabling hardware acceleration in the Flashplugin settings?

That did the trick for me.

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Firefox Crashing When Trying to Fullscreen Any Flash Video

I had the same problem here.
Not many people seem to be affected, this might have something to do with the Xorg video driver used then ?
oib111 and theapodan, what are you using ?

And why did mozilla firefox binaries build not crash a single time ? (same version 3.5.2 , installed from AUR).

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Chrysalis

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 155

Re: Firefox Crashing When Trying to Fullscreen Any Flash Video

Fullscreen flash hasnt worked here since flash 10 (have to drop to a VT and kill the browser). I thought it was a known bug.

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Firefox Crashing When Trying to Fullscreen Any Flash Video

Well, where is it reported ?
It really doesn't look like everyone is affected, so please post which Xorg driver you are using (and other details about your system) to see if there is any similarities.

mine : up-to-date i686 system, using nouveau driver and gnome.

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zowki

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From: Trapped in The Matrix

Registered: 2008-11-27

Posts: 582

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Re: Firefox Crashing When Trying to Fullscreen Any Flash Video

Try the Arch Rollback Machine.

edit: wrong URI

Whats URI? You mean URL?

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V for Vivian

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Registered: 2009-04-28

Posts: 52

Re: Firefox Crashing When Trying to Fullscreen Any Flash Video

Same problem here, I'm using the nvidia-driver 185.18.36, firefox 3.5.2 and flash 10 on a MacBook Pro. Disabling the hardware acceleration for flash did the trick for me and it's working now.

edit: URI means Uniform Resource Identifier. URL is a subset of URI I believe.

Last edited by V for Vivian (2009-09-09 13:29:59)

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Chrysalis

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 155

Re: Firefox Crashing When Trying to Fullscreen Any Flash Video

i686, nvidia, kde4, konq/firefox/opera here. Some flash videos work in fullscreen, some dont and if it works its laggy... i dont know much about flash to start debugging it and have just been avoiding fullscreen since flash10 came out (wow, its been almost a year already).

I said that i thought it was a known bug because i remember reading a thread like this somewhere a while ago when flash10 was still new and pretty much everyone confirmed it.

Last edited by Chrysalis (2009-09-09 20:47:10)