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for some reason everytime I visit a page that uses macromedia's flash plugin, my internet browser (whatever it may be) crashes.. I remember doing a brief pacman -Sy a few weeks ago, and since then I get crash after crash in firefox. I don't want to reinstall everything (as I know there must be a better way), but need a way to fix this. I hate having to use a live-cd to pay my bills.
I use firefox 1.0.2 (i think, i just changed back to the version on the install disc .. .7 ... ) and it's still doing it. I've tried Konqueror and Epiphany, and they all do it. It probably has something to do with Flash, I think. Is there a way to install it through pacman (I've used the install file), and perhaps theres some conflict from pacman's installed package and the one I initally used to install (the install file from macromedia).
Thanks for your help.
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Ok... first off... upgrade firefox... I'm running 1.0.4
Secondly, install flash via pacman (pacman -S flashplugin)
Third, are you using Composite? if you are, check the wiki... you need some "Skip ARGB Visuals" setting to make flash work with composite.
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If none of that works...Set this environment variable.
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
That affects only the flash plugin so it won't break anything else.
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thanks, but neither worked.
Unfortunately, it isn't always lucrative for my to update constantally, as I am on dialup (so if version 1.02 of firefox works, why should I update to 1.04...)
I got it working, but just did it my own way.. I ran a
[code]pacman -R flashplugin[/quote]
then did a
[code]locate flash[/code]
and purged the flash plugin from my user and various other directories.
I know it was risky, but it worked for me.
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So it's solved, now you just don't have Flash at all? I had the same problem, my solution was to install AdBlock for Firefox and I have a flilter
*swf*
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oh, yeah.. I forgot to mention I just reinstalled it, and it works fine now.. hmm.. curious.
I forgot adblock existed.. I'll have to getthat again.. thanks for reminding me.
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