[mdlug] Latest version of flash player crashes firefox

[Ron Blanchett]

I am running hardy and I must say that ff 3.0 even in beta is 1000%
more stable than ff 2.0 ever was for me ymmv



On 5/15/08, Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net> wrote:
> Jeff Hanson wrote:
>> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:07 AM, R. Kannan <rkannan at peoplepc.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I installed  firefox 2.0.0.14 recently but the flashplayer was old. When
>>> I installed the latest version of flashplayer plugin (9.0) installed,
>>> firefox crashes every time I go to website with flash. I had flash-block
>>> enabled. I un-installed flash-block but that did not help either. I tried
>>> both the rpm and tarred version of the flash-block from the Adobe site.
>>> The only option was to remove the plugin from /opt/firefox/plugins.
>>
>> I've had some occasional problems with it also.  What version are your
>> using?  Enter "about:plugins" in the address bar to check.
>> I'm about to upgrade to Ubuntu Hardy Heron so I'll be using 3.0 beta
>> 5.  Hopefully that fixes it.
>
> At the MUG meeting last night Jorge Castro's presentation on Hardy Heron
> touched on the Firefox 3.0 Beta issue. Jorge reports that 3.0 is such an
> improvement that even the Beta has far fewer problems than 2.x, and
> recommends just using it.
>
> For what it's worth, I still use 2.0.0.14, and I have flash blocker
> installed. When I do chose to run a flash app, especially video, I
> expect I have about a 50% chance of firefox becoming unresponsive when I
> try to close the page. I'm not sure which is worse, the flash problem,
> or the fact that I've gotten so used to it that I almost accept it. :(
>
> Raymond McLaughlin
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