Description of problem: when trying to watch a few films at YouTube.com, firefox suddenly crashed. when run from Terminal, at the moment of crash it displays: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 3132 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"} or /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 7913 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"} the problem disappears when i get rid of libflashsupport. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libflashsupport-000-0.5.svn20070904.i386 also: flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386 firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.i386 How reproducible: i tested it on 2 different computers: a desktop and a laptop. in case of the desktop, the problem occured every time i tried to watch any film. on the laptop, the problem appeared only occassionally. Steps to Reproduce: Two ways: 1. open YouTube.com 2. choose any film appearing on the homepage (sometimes you have to open a few before it crashes) 3. watch your wallpaper and: 1. open YouTube.com 2. choose any film, then jump to another, then to another, and go back. it will freeze and then crash. Actual results: Firefox crashes annoyingly. Expected results: Every film should be played smoothly. Additional info:
today i've noticed that sometimes (again the difference between the desktop and the laptop), when trying to watch a film in YouTube.com, sound turns into horrible noise which can't be turned down. the only remedy to my ears is to exit firefox. please, take care of that as these bugs are really distracting. if you need any more info, just let me know.
For me, flash has NO sound at all and even crashes sometimes when libflashsupport is NOT installed (especially at myspace music). I installed libflashsupport, now it sends everything to pulseaudio, and works. I admit that it's strange when compared to your experience :) (I'm using Fedora 9 and Firefox 3b5)
Maybe useful (it's for ubuntu but that's how I solved it): http://markusthielmann.com/blog/defusing_one_most_annoying_bugs_ubuntu_hardy_heron_stop_flash_killing_firefox
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Hi guys, I'm totally new to this. In fact, this last week was the first time that I sat down and actually worked with a Linux distro, so bear with me if what I say or suggest makes no sense at all -- I'm essentially blind, and if what I've done works then it was just dumb luck and a bit of research. I did this on a persistent live usb install where I was having frequent crashes proceeded by massive cpu usage whenever flash content would show up on a page. These crashes would render the USB drive unusable, and I would have to reinstall the live image. Either way, after some investigation I found that the npviewer.bin process was spiking cpu usage, and began terminating it and reloading the page whenever I would have to deal with flash content. Needless to say, this is hardly a fix. Reading the suggestions for Ubuntu didn't really help me as I'm not familiar enough with the system to adapt the instructions. While reading bug reports I found one user complaining about config changes not being saved across updates of nspluginwrapper. Curious, I navigated to the file and opened it (took me a couple tried to figure out how to do it as root). I noticed a line listing things that are excluded by the plug-in, among them gecko-mediaplayer and totem. Figuring that since none of these have given me problems yet, I added libflashsupport to the exclusions. Keep in mind I only did this about an hour ago, but going through a few youtube videos, although resulting in higher cpu usage as usual(same amount as when libflashsupport was not installed, less than when it was installed and not excluded), did not bring the system to its knees. I suspect that the cpu usage is simply from running the flash plugin and that the addition of libflashsupport might be pushing it over the edge. Then again, I'm a complete newbie, and I will now post in case I get another crash. Feel free to delete this if it's all BS, I won't mind, especially if I get another crash.
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