mozilla-firefox-0.9.3-r1 crashes without any error message whenever a page with flash is visited. I have tried it with and without netscape-flash-7.0.25, but the result is same. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start mozilla-firefox 2. Visit any site with flash [ eg. flash.com ] 3. Firefox crashes without any message Actual Results: Firefox crashes without any message Expected Results: Firefox should display webpages with flash Webpages containing flash plugins works pretty well with mozilla-firefox-0.9.3.ebuild
Try launching firefox from a terminal. I'm getting the same problem (although not just with pages that have flash) with the new 0.9.3-r1 ebuild here. For me at least, it isn't flash that's the problem, it's java. The fact you're getting crashes with/without flash installed suggests flash isn't your problem either. When I run firefox from a terminal, I get this output when it tries to use java- firefox No running windows found INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the JVM manager System error?:: Success
I think this is related to plugin interface for Firefox!!
probably a sound server issue... that's what it was for me.. artsdsp wasn't good enough! I had to kill every freakin sound generating program to have firefox work withi flash enabled pages.. .and have sound... (I haven't read your comments yet...) yeah, could be the same as my problem there are bugs open on bugzilla.mozilla.org for firefox... they developed the bug tracking software.. partially because their software is so buggy!
I am almost certain that I have the same problem, and it is due to the java jre plugin and not flash. I removed the jre plugin and no crashes with flash pages anymore.
I emerged with firefox with the java use flag set, and that seems to fix the java crashes. Setting this use flag will fix similar mozilla crashes as well.
Yeah, just saw that on the forums. As an aside to that, with the java use flag set, Gentoo wants both blackdown-jre and blackdown-jdk, which is a pretty hefty amount of downloading just for java. My gcc was compiled with -java (so I don't have gcj) - doubt that will make a difference though. I'll let Gentoo install the jdk and recompile the r1 firefox ebuild and report back.
My problems got solved when I rebuild firefox with java flag. The procedure is as follows - #emerge blackdown-jdk #USE="java" emerge mozilla-firefox #emerge netscape-flash #ln -sf ln -sf /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_rc1/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so #ln -sf /opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xp /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/flashplayer.xpt #ln -sf /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so Now, net-www/mozilla-firefox-0.9.3-r1 works well with java/flash plugins
Seems to work here as well with the java flag. Archan, you can use the java-config utility to switch to the blackdown-jdk btw, I didn't have to do any of that symlink creation and it works here (flash as well).
I'm reopening this because I'm going to test building firefox with USE=-java and try to reproduce. It's possible that the crashes are due to other configuration items for firefox that are based on USE=java
I believe this problem was due to building without oji support. That's fixed now in the current (1.0) firefox ebuild
