[SOLVED] Flashplayer crash on particular website

gondsman · 2010-03-09 12:00:18

Hello everyone. I'ma happy Archlinux user, but I'm also a basketball fan and I would like to watch game highlights and other videos on www.nba.com. Unfortunately EVERY video on this website causes my browser to crash. I tried it on 3 different PCs (with x86 and AMD64, intel, ati and nvidia graphics, and all kind of browsers), but the result is still the same. I must add that I can watch youtube and other similar sites without problems and the NBA website is the only one causing crashing for me.
If it can help I run KDEmod 4.4.1 at the moment (but with previous version I had the same problem) on all my PCs.
Is anyone able to reproduce this? Is it a problem with KDE?
Thank you very much!

Last edited by gondsman (2010-03-10 20:53:18)

Sheepeh · 2010-03-09 12:48:50

I had Flash crash every single time on certain sites too, until I picked up on the tip to set GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1.

I can play those videos just fine in Opera/Chromium/Firefox x86_64, so you might want to give it a go - to test it quickly without making a permanent change run

GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 firefox

(of course, use whichever browser you want!)

If it kicks in to life, you can either add that in your bashrc to make it global or simply add it to the browser's startup command.

gondsman · 2010-03-10 00:42:30

Unfortunately your suggestion didn't work for me...

Sheepeh · 2010-03-10 01:28:40

I don't know, then - that's the only non-default change I've made to my browser/Flash setup and I can play it fine in all my browsers.

The only major difference I can see is that I'm using Openbox rather than KDE currently, but the same fix stopped it crashing on GameTrailers videos for me in (vanilla) KDE too.

All I can tell you is my Openbox x86_64 with extra/flashplugin 10.0.45.2-1 plays those videos fine in every browser I have, so it is possible.

bangkok_manouel · 2010-03-10 01:59:44

works for me too. maybe give the 10.1 beta 3 a try.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

uwinkelvos · 2010-03-10 02:04:14

i have no problem playing the flash vids on nba.com using firefox on openbox, but every now and then, when i watch several vids in a row on some websites firefox crashes. Flash is simply pretty shitty especially on linux.

toad · 2010-03-10 08:18:53

Hm, I take it switching to a proper sport like football is not an option WHUFC needs all the support it can get at the mo...

Okay, enough of that. I'm on an up-to-date 64-bit Arch system with vanilla KDE and the following flashplugin. Needless to say I can watch the stuff as well!

toad@deskarch 1002\8 ~ > pacman -Qi flashplugin
Name : flashplugin
Version : 10.0.45.2-1
URL : http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer
Licences : custom
Groups : None
Provides : flashplayer
Depends On : mozilla-common libxt gtk2 nss curl
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : flashplugin-beta
Installed Size : 11735.00 K
Packager : Giovanni Scafora <giovanni@archlinux.org>
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Thu 11 Feb 2010 22:21:50 CET
Install Date : Fri 12 Feb 2010 15:50:16 CET
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description : Adobe Flash Player

gondsman · 2010-03-10 19:56:23

I'm Italian, I am DEFINITELY a football supporter (AS Roma, exactly)! I mean, every Italian male is a football fan, but the downside is that Italian TV broadcasts almost only football matches. Other sports, unless there are big events as the Olympic games are mostly ignored.
However, OT, I have flashplugin version 10.0.45.2-1 installed too. The strange thing is that I checked for this issue as one of the first thing I tried after I recently installed Arch on a new PC (I should say I actually used Chakra livecd this time to speed-up the process, but on my netbook I have the same problem and I manually installed everything from base Arch) so I am quite sure I didn't mess up with anything.
Mhh... I ran out of ideas at the moment...

toad · 2010-03-10 20:00:05

Well, you are excused

Next thing - should have been the first thing actually - is to disable all your firefox addons. Assuming you use firefox, of course...

gondsman · 2010-03-10 20:48:09

Ok, there was something very strange going on. I didn't use firefox (I use chromium at the moment), but, just for the sake of it, I tried to install it. I loaded nba.com and it worked! This seemed weird to me, as I tried other browsers too and all of them were crashing. So I reopened chromium and it worked too! Actually, it's working even though I removed firefox! I'll do some other tries, for now I'll mark this issue as resolved.
Thank you all! Arch community rocks! :-)

Sheepeh · 2010-03-11 01:11:22

I bet you £5 that if you remove the folder that contains your Firefox profile, it'll start crashing again, in that case. Something bad hardcoded in?

uwinkelvos · 2010-03-11 05:35:26

gondsman wrote:

I'm Italian, I am DEFINITELY a football supporter (AS Roma, exactly)! I mean, every Italian male is a football fan, but the downside is that Italian TV broadcasts almost only football matches.

Enjoy the way italian clubs are doinig this season in CL and EL? Can't wait us (Werder Bremen) to beat Juventus in the EL final and take your 4th cl spot!

gondsman wrote:

Actually, it's working even though I removed firefox! I'll do some other tries, for now I'll mark this issue as resolved.

did you remove it with -Rn flags and deleted the ~/.mozilla/firefox/ folder? As Sheepeh mentinioned this woul be interesting.

gondsman · 2010-03-11 11:00:32

We're badly off topic, but I shoud add that I lived in Germany for a while, so I would not be so upset if Werder Bremen wins Europa League. I would be happy if any team other than Juventus wins the cup actually! :-)
I'm not on my PC right now, this evening I will try deleting my firefox profile. I removed firefox using the -Rn option, but did not use the "n" flag for its dependencies, only -Rcs. I'll let you know how this pans out.

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