403444 - Firefox often crashes on websites with Flash (youtube, animations,etc), when libflashsupport is installed

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Overflow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071030 Fedora/2.0.0.8-2.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071030 Fedora/2.0.0.8-2.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.8

Firefox often crashes on websites with Flash content, there _seems_ to be a a problem between gecko and flash, the bug report window says " gecko anomalie "

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go on a website with flash content ( youtube, flash-only website, etc)
2.Try to go on these websites some 3 ,4 times
3. Normally, it crashes
Actual Results:  
A bug window appear and tells me there is a problem with gecko 

Expected Results:  
The flash animations should be read correctly with no crash

Default firefox theme
Using a 32bit i386-compatible CPU ( Pentium 4 Hyper-threading)

Comment 1

[Overflow]

http://overflowftp.free.fr/gecko-rapport-anomalie.txt

Here is a dump/crash report

Comment 2

[Overflow]

I forgot to say that i'm on Fedora 8 and i'm using the libflashsupport ( for sound support)

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I forgot to say that i'm on Fedora 8 and i'm using the libflashsupport

To Alexandre Behnam(biug opener):
See Bug 430992 Comment #7 and Bug 430992 Comment #9 (Ubuntu case) and Ubuntu bug report pointed in it. Does problem occur even after uninstall of libflashsupport?

Comment 4

[Overflow]

 Does problem occur even after uninstall of
libflashsupport?
>> No, it doesn't happen because I use Alsa now, but it's the duo PulseAudio+libflashsupport that make that problem

MORE exactly, it's libflashsupport the problem, since even on Ubuntu, there is this problem, so this is not only Fedora-related.

Comment 5

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Thanks for your feedback.
Adding "libflashsupport" in bug summary for ease of search.

Comment 6

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Bug 434015 Comment #7 also says;
> Uninstalling libflashsupport no longer causes segfaults.
FYI. Following is a bug report to ubuntu community.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/192888

Comment 7

[u88484]

This bug was reported using a version of Firefox that security and stability updates are no longer provided for.  All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3 by selecting 'Check for Updates' in the Help menu or by going to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html

If you can no longer reproduce this bug using the latest Firefox 3.0.x version, please change the status of this bug to 'RESOLVED' 'WORKSFORME'.

If you can still reproduce this bug, please provide additional details to help resolve this issue.

Comment 8

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please reply if you can still reproduce this bug with Firefox 3.5.3 or later in a new profile with the latest plugins (flash, quicktime, java, etc.).

Comment 9

[rembrand]

Using version 3 I do no see any crashes any more with Flash. However, since nobody has come to a clear understanding of what caused the bug I would not be surprised to see it come back again. Pulse audio settings could be the source bu the crash happened with Pulse audio disabled too (even without Pulse Audio installed).

The biggest change came with Flash version 10.x 
Now I have not had a single crash since I upgraded to Flash 10.x

Comment 10

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Yeah, fi you are using old software such as flash 9 and firefox 2. Flash underwent major improvements in 10, so it it seems like this is gone.