Firefox doesn't like politics?!? :)

palmaway · 2008-02-08 15:25:18

Weird thing... Firefox crashes when I try to load this page:
http://politics.nytimes.com/election-gu … index.html
(or, to be politically correct, this one: http://politics.nytimes.com/election-gu … ndex.html)

I just updated to the new version with pacman (firefox-2.0.0.11-2, flashplugin-9.0.115.0-2), but nothing changes.

Any clue, anyone?

Paolo

floke · 2008-02-08 16:19:50

Same here + with Epiphany.
No crash with opera, but the page doesn't show.

broch · 2008-02-08 16:25:26

no crash with firefox.
see states and county breakage with mouse hovering over state and magnification when clicked state map.

#pacman -Qe | grep firefox
firefox 2.0.0.11-2
#pacman -Qe | grep flash
flashplugin 9.0.115.0-2

jacko · 2008-02-08 17:29:52

firefox 3 does not crash, but it fails to load anything flash on the page.

Allan · 2008-02-08 17:31:36

broch wrote:

no crash with firefox.
see states and county breakage with mouse hovering over state and magnification when clicked state map.
#pacman -Qe | grep firefox
firefox 2.0.0.11-2
#pacman -Qe | grep flash
flashplugin 9.0.115.0-2

I get crashing, same versions, i686.

Misfit138 · 2008-02-08 17:50:16

Crashes here too with Swiftfox.

$ pacman -Qe|grep swiftfox
swiftfox-athlon64 2.0.0.11-1
$ pacman -Qe|grep flash
flashplugin 9.0.115.0-1

Ramses de Norre · 2008-02-08 18:38:36

It can reproduce it here too.

$ pacman -Qs {firefox,flashplugin}
local/firefox 2.0.0.11-2
    Standalone web browser from mozilla.org
local/flashplugin 9.0.115.0-2
    Macromedia flash plugin for Netscape/Mozilla (nonfree)

broch · 2008-02-08 19:22:23

and this is a problematic picture?
http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?imag … ashsp5.png

firefox was moved to the new directory,
from
/opt/mozilla/lib
to
/usr/lib/

maybe this has something to do with the issue (as it seem it is not related to arch)

weaner · 2008-02-08 21:09:54

I think it's java/flash related rather than firefox/swiftfox. I'm using the noscript plugin (which allows me regulate which java/flash scripts are run when visiting a site) and can view the page without ff crashing.
FF will crash though when I allow the nytimes.com to run java/flash apps.
Hope this helps.

Oh, the link for the add-on is below if anyone is interested.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722

peart · 2008-02-08 21:27:23

Firefox crashes here too:

[marc@~] /usr/bin/firefox
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so [/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so: file too short]
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.11/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  3834 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
[marc@~]

The "failed to initialize shared library..." message appears when I go to archlinux.org. When I go to the NY Times page, I get the 2nd line (Seg fault).

peart · 2008-02-08 21:37:41

Bah! My mplayerplug-in file has size 0... Also, I have 2 plugins dirs in /opt/mozilla. The second dir has ':' appended to it. Not sure if that's normal or not.

[marc@/opt/mozilla/lib] ll
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 128 2008-02-08 15:41 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  72 2008-02-08 15:41 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  48 2007-12-12 11:24 pkgconfig/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 128 2008-02-08 15:41 plugins/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  72 2007-12-20 09:30 plugins:/

[marc@/opt/mozilla/lib] cd plugins
[marc@/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins] ll
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 128 2008-02-08 15:41 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 128 2008-02-08 15:41 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  50 2008-01-11 22:34 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 2008-02-08 15:41 mplayerplug-in.so

peart · 2008-02-08 21:54:42

Ok, I fixed mplayer plugin, and the NY Times page still crashes. It's not related. Sorry for the wild goose chase.

venox · 2008-02-08 23:10:53

I'm using firefox-2.0.0.11-2 and flashplugin-9.0.115.0-2 and had no problems to load the page. The only Firefox extension I have installed is Vimperator. Java and Flash are enabled here. Could it be somehow related to the graphics driver?

Misfit138 · 2008-02-14 01:56:29

peart wrote:

Ok, I fixed mplayer plugin, and the NY Times page still crashes. It's not related. Sorry for the wild goose chase.

I'm still having the mplayer issue, how did you fix it?
Here is my error:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so [/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so: file too short]

As a temporary hack, I linked /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so, which works..but seems dirty.

SpookyET · 2008-02-14 02:14:20

jacko wrote:

firefox 3 does not crash, but it fails to load anything flash on the page.

I have firefox 3 beta 3 ( firefox-spookyet on AUR ). It does not crash.

peart · 2008-02-14 02:27:06

Misfit138 wrote:

peart wrote:
Ok, I fixed mplayer plugin, and the NY Times page still crashes. It's not related. Sorry for the wild goose chase.
I'm still having the mplayer issue, how did you fix it?
Here is my error:
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so [/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so: file too short]
As a temporary hack, I linked /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so, which works..but seems dirty.

Hi Misfit,

Originally, I deleted /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so. It was a zero byte file. Then I reinstalled the plugin and it worked fine. But just now, I noticed that the plugin stopped working again. I had another zero byte file! This time it was /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so. So once again, I reinstalled the plugin (version 3.50-3), and it's working for now...

HTH,
peart

PS: Plugin test page: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.html

Misfit138 · 2008-02-14 02:46:10

Thanks, Peart.
I just renamed /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/ which didn't break anything, so I guess it's looking in /usr/ now, because it still works without the symlink I made, so all is well.

freakcode · 2008-02-14 14:01:36

Crashes with Konqueror too. I bet it's related to Flash plugin.

[freakcode@atena ~]$ pacman -Qe | grep flash
flashplugin 9.0.48.0-1

Last edited by freakcode (2008-02-14 14:02:33)

broch · 2008-02-14 18:37:03

freakcode wrote:

Crashes with Konqueror too. I bet it's related to Flash plugin.
[freakcode@atena ~]$ pacman -Qe | grep flash
flashplugin 9.0.48.0-1

your flash package is old, try to update to the latest.

As I mentioned in my previous post:
installation folder for ff changed, you may see if firefox see plugins

freakcode · 2008-02-14 21:48:04

broch wrote:

freakcode wrote:
Crashes with Konqueror too. I bet it's related to Flash plugin.
[freakcode@atena ~]$ pacman -Qe | grep flash
flashplugin 9.0.48.0-1
your flash package is old, try to update to the latest.
As I mentioned in my previous post:
installation folder for ff changed, you may see if firefox see plugins

I know it's old - I'm holding this package because the newer flash plugin, that includes a new nice GTK+ right-click menu, doesn't work on Konqueror and also crashes.

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