1598257 - Flash Plugin makes Firefox 68ESR crash

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P5)

Description

[Andreas]

Attachment: Firefox_Container_Error.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Steps to reproduce:

Update Firefox ESR 60.9.0 to 68.2.0. Flash Plugin 32.0.0.293 was already installed.
If Version 68.2.0 gets uninstalled and ESR 60.9.0 reinstalled Firefox doesn't crash.
(Windows Server 2016 VM on VMware Hypervisor)

Actual results:

Activate Flash plugin for a Flash webside crashes Firefox with the following error "Plugin Container for Firefox has stopped working"

Expected results:

Flash websides not crashing with the latest Firefox ESR Release

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:jimm, could you have a look please?

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Comment 2

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

Hi Andreas,
Sorry this seems to have fallen through the cracks; are you still able to reproduce the issue?
Best regards,
Clara

Comment 3

[alex_mayorga]

https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html