60267 – Firefox 0.9.3 on PPC crashes on certain flash webpages

Bug 60267 - Firefox 0.9.3 on PPC crashes on certain flash webpages

Summary: Firefox 0.9.3 on PPC crashes on certain flash webpages

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	PPC Linux

Importance:	High critical (vote)
Assignee:	PPC Porters

URL:	http://www.skyhawkusa.com/products.htm
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Reported:	2004-08-13 13:19 UTC by Dan Barowy
Modified:	2004-09-22 16:09 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Dan Barowy 2004-08-13 13:19:08 UTC

I figured I'd post this with Gentoo bugzilla first; let me know if I need to post this to Mozilla's instead.

Certain web pages with flash cause Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3 on PPC to crash.  For instance, this page:

http://www.skyhawkusa.com/products.htm

Makes Firefox crash consistently.

I found a simple workaround, which is to create a userContent.css file in the [user-profile]/chrome directory that contains the following:

/* turn off flash */
embed[type="application/x-shockwave-flash"] {
  display: none !important;
  visibility: hidden !important;
}

This change prevents Firefox from crashing.  Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that there is no flash for Linux PPC?


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.skyhawkusa.com
2. when pop-up asks you if you want to find the Flash plug-in (as it always does on PPC), click "Cancel"
3. Click on the "Products" link

Actual Results:  
Firefox dies.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should display the page, without crashing.

dbarowy@arda chrome $ emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-ppc-2004.1, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0,
2.6.7-gentoo-r11)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 ppc 7400, altivec supported
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS=""
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa arts berkdb cdr cups dvd esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gnome-libs
gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libwww mitshm motif mozilla nls oggvorbis opengl oss
pam perl png ppc python qt readline scanner sdl slang ssl tcltk tcpd truetype
video_cards_rage128 xv"

Comment 1 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-22 16:09:28 UTC

This probably needs to be reported upstream since mozilla@gentoo.org hasn't replied.