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scottmuz

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Registered: 2011-11-13

Posts: 9

Firefox 12.0-1 and flashplugin 11.2 crashes

Hi All,

Updated to Firefox 12.0-1 this morning. Every flash video caused the Firefox to crash.

Downgraded to Firefox 11.0-3 and all was well again.

Anyone else seeing the issue?

Apart from Firefox 11.0-3 (which I've downgraded) all my packages are up to date.

scottmuz

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Registered: 2011-11-13

Posts: 9

Re: Firefox 12.0-1 and flashplugin 11.2 crashes

BTW I am sure it was due to flash as when I disabled all my plugins and extensions it was stable (with no flash videos of course) but once I re-enabled flash the crashes resumed.

hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1,249

Re: Firefox 12.0-1 and flashplugin 11.2 crashes

Works fine for me...

jwhipp

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Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 7

Re: Firefox 12.0-1 and flashplugin 11.2 crashes

Seeing the same issue.  I've been attempting to harvest some xsession error output from this and here is what I am seeing:

1 of three errors. 

(plugin-container:15545): Gdk-WARNING **: gdkdrawable-x11.c:874 drawable is not a pixmap or window

and

[xcb] Unknown request in queue while dequeuing
[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:178: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq' failed.

and

plugin-container: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.

@scottmuz:  are you using nvidia drivers?

jwhipp

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Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 7

Re: Firefox 12.0-1 and flashplugin 11.2 crashes

So based on the X error I saw, and the fact that this doesn't happen on my laptop with ATI graphics, I decided to comment out EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg.

I am not seeing the crashing now using the same steps to cause a crash.

Looks like an issue with Adobe HW acceleration on NVidia drivers.

Versions of stuff installed:

Name           : nvidia
Version        : 295.40-2

Name           : flashplugin
Version        : 11.2.202.233-1

Name           : firefox
Version        : 12.0-2

Daerun

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Registered: 2011-02-07

Posts: 97

Re: Firefox 12.0-1 and flashplugin 11.2 crashes

Looks like an issue with Adobe HW acceleration on NVidia drivers.

Versions of stuff installed:

Name           : nvidia
Version        : 295.40-2

Name           : flashplugin
Version        : 11.2.202.233-1

Name           : firefox
Version        : 12.0-2

Yep, after upgrade I experienced the black screen blinking problem and it worked for me to disable hardware acceleration on flash options.

Last edited by Daerun (2012-04-29 21:03:05)

jwhipp

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Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 7

Re: Firefox 12.0-1 and flashplugin 11.2 crashes

I was having this issue with Chromium too, but HW acceleration off fixed the crashes there as well.  Forgot to mention that.

Gotta love flash...the quicker it dies off the better, imho.

siriusb

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2010-01-01

Posts: 422

Re: Firefox 12.0-1 and flashplugin 11.2 crashes

Disabling HW acceleration solved the issue for me, too. Having nVidia 295.40, also.

the quicker it dies off the better, imho

I agree.