434703 - Adobe Flash makes Firefox crash every now and then on Linux

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Tit Couille]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080208 Mandriva/2.0.0.13-1mdv2008.1 (2008.1) Firefox/2.0.0.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080208 Mandriva/2.0.0.13-1mdv2008.1 (2008.1) Firefox/2.0.0.13

Adobe Flash makes Firefox crash every now and then on Linux. The crashes occur when the Flash animation initializes (no crashes once the animation has started). A same page sometimes work, sometimes crashes. The crash is observed only on Linux (I have also Windows on the same computer, with the same version of Firefox and of Flash, and no crashes). I attach a typical crash report.




Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Tit Couille]

Attachment: Crash report

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Which version of the Flash plugin are you using? (see about:plugins)

Comment 3

[Tit Couille]

I'm using Flash 9.0.124 (which is the latest version). Someone had suggested me to try 9.0.43, an older release, to see if that solves the problem. However, 9.0.43 exhibits the same problem. Now, I'm back at 9.0.124.

Comment 4

[Tit Couille]

The problem seems solved in Adobe Flash 10 Prerelease version, available at:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Furthermore, I believe the issue in Flash 9 versions is audio-related. Sometimes, when Flash initialized and just before the crash, I was hearing strange noises in the speakers. From what I gathered on the Internet, the problem occurs on Linux systems with PulseAudio. Apparently, Flash 9 offered only experimental PulseAudio support.

Anyhow, no problems so far with Adobe Flash 10 Prerelease and Firefox, so I mark this bug as "FIXED".