1394015 - Adobe Flash plugin 26.0.0.151 on FireFox 55.0.2 (64-bit) under Ubuntu 16.04 (Unity desktop) crashes when attempting to launch file open dialog box

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P2)

Description

[ffdixon]

Attachment: flash-crash.PNG

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.49 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Using FireFox 55.0.2 (64-bit) running on Ubuntu 16.04 (Unity desktop),

1.  Go to https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/
2.  Enter "Test FF" for meeting name field
3.  Click "Start" button
4.  Enter "My Name" for name field
5.  Click "Join" button

BigBlueButton launches.  

6.  Click the 'x' for joining audio
7.  Click the Upload Presentation button (Lower left-hand corner)
7.  Click the "Select File" button 


Actual results:

Flash will crash (see attached image).


Expected results:

The File Open dialog for Ubuntu should have appeared.

It looks like you can trigger the crash by doing a right-click anywhere within Flash.

Comment 1

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Please provide your crash ID. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/mozillacrashreporter

Comment 2

[ffdixon]

Looks like the bug was introduced in FF 55.0.2, here's a comment from one of our users.

I'm using 64-bit on a Lenovo Thinkpad E560. I just booted my old desktop which was not updated for a few weeks and tried with FF54 and Flash 26.0.0.137 and had no problems on it. Then I updated Flash first from .137 to .151, still everything working, then after updating FF to 55.0.2 I also have the crash of Flash on my desktop computer when opening the file selector dialog.

Comment 3

[ffdixon]

Kohei,

Here's the crash report: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/2443957a-042c-4ea3-a9d5-bc9231170825

Comment 5

[RoMan]

Flash crashes not only when opening the file selector dialog, context menu also cause crash

Comment 6

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to RoMan from comment #5)
> Flash crashes not only when opening the file selector dialog, context menu
> also cause crash

Thanks, we have a report for this in bug 1401029.

Comment 7

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

This works for me with latest Nightly 58.0a1, 20171010100200 on Ubuntu 64-bit Linux 17.04 with Shockwave Flash 27.0.0.159.

However, there are plenty of reports of this crash signature across all channels. https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/signature/?product=Firefox&signature=gdk_window_get_window_type&date=%3E%3D2017-10-04T14%3A36%3A00.000Z&date=%3C2017-10-11T14%3A36%3A00.000Z&_columns=date&_columns=product&_columns=version&_columns=build_id&_columns=platform&_columns=reason&_columns=address&_columns=install_time&_sort=-date&page=1#summary

Comment 8

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

crash-stats does contain a couple of reports with Shockwave Flash 27.0.0.159. So that isn't the difference in why I don't see this wehre others on 27.0.0.130 do.  Maybe it's Ubuntu 16.04 vs 17.04?

Comment 9

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Yeah looks like it might be specific to Ubuntu 16 - 

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/search/?signature=%3Dgdk_window_get_window_type&platform_version=%3D0.0.0%20Linux%204.4.0-93-generic%20%23116-Ubuntu%20SMP%20Fri%20Aug%2011%2021%3A17%3A51%20UTC%202017%20x86_64&product=Firefox&date=%3E%3D2017-09-01T18%3A51%3A00.000Z&date=%3C2017-10-12T18%3A51%3A00.000Z&_sort=-date&_facets=signature&_facets=plugin_version&_facets=platform_version&_facets=app_notes&_columns=date&_columns=signature&_columns=product&_columns=version&_columns=build_id&_columns=platform#facet-app_notes

This needs an owner for investigation.

Comment 10

[u597032]

Flash is no longer supported.