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Quinten

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Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 8

firefox crashes when playing flash

since todays upgrade, firefox crashes when I try to play a flash video in youtube. At that moment the statusbar shows:

Waiting for ad.doubleclick.net...

I upgraded the following packages.

[07/19/06 18:38] starting full system upgrade
[07/19/06 19:02] upgraded gnutls (1.4.0-1 -> 1.4.1-1)
[07/19/06 19:02] upgraded gpgme (1.1.0-1 -> 1.1.2-1)
[07/19/06 19:03] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.17.5-1 -> 2.6.17.6-1)
[07/19/06 19:05] upgraded kernel26beyond (2.6.17.beyond1.1-1 -> 2.6.17.beyond2.1-1)
[07/19/06 19:06] upgraded libglade (2.5.1-4 -> 2.6.0-1)
[07/19/06 19:06] upgraded libxml2 (2.6.23-2 -> 2.6.26-1)
[07/19/06 19:06] upgraded libxslt (1.1.15-1 -> 1.1.17-1)
[07/19/06 19:06] upgraded openoffice-spell-en (20040623-2 -> 20060411-1)
[07/19/06 19:06] upgraded pth (2.0.6-1 -> 2.0.7-1)
[07/19/06 19:06] upgraded ruby (1.8.4-3 -> 1.8.4-4)
[07/19/06 19:06] upgraded wine (0.9.16-1 -> 0.9.17-1)
[07/19/06 19:06] upgraded xine-lib (1.1.1-3 -> 1.1.2-1)
[07/19/06 19:23] upgraded kernel26beyond (2.6.17.beyond2.1-1 -> 2.6.17.beyond2.1-1)

I have removed all extensions to firefox and reinstalled it, the problem persists.

I cleared my cache yesterday. Where can I find prior versions of the packages?

Any ideas what might cause this?
youtube uses flash player.

Thanx in advance,

Quinten

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: firefox crashes when playing flash

I've noticed this on my work machine from a couple weeks ago, but since firefox still worked on my home machine, I thought it was a localized issue and never brought it up (since I use Opera primarily now).

I would also be interested in knowing why this happens.

makz

Member

Registered: 2004-12-07

Posts: 27

Re: firefox crashes when playing flash

I've had the same problem and i solved it by upgrading some packages that didn't get upgraded with pacman -Syu. I think the packages that fixed that where gettext or alsa-*.

evdvelde

Member

From: Antwerp - BELGIUM

Registered: 2005-12-02

Posts: 57

Re: firefox crashes when playing flash

I had the same problem but after some googling I found the solution on a site of our friends of gentoo
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and … with_Flash

Hope this works for you too...