If I select Edit>Preferences>Downloads>Plugins after emerging netscape-flash-6.0.81 or netscape-flash-7.0.25, the button stays depressed and firefox hangs. Ctrl+C doesn't kill it, only "killall firefox-bin". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge netscape-flash 2.open Firefox 3.select Edit>Preferences>Downloads>Plugins Actual Results: Firefox hangs Expected Results: Firefox should have opened the plugins dialog Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 17 2004, 11:24:40)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://rsync.quad4.org/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.quad4.org/portage" USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups divx4linux dvd encode esd f77 fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png posix python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0 -debug -gnome +gtk2 +ipv6 +java +ldap -mozdevelop -moznoxft -mozxmlterm +truetype -xinerama -xprint net-www/netscape-flash-6.0.81 +gtk or net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.25 +gtk
BTW, I had previously installed the flash plugin from macromedia.com. I searched for anything left behind that might be fritzing firefox, but I can't find anything. Besides this little bug, flash seems to be working fine. My friend is using the same netscape-flash and (I think) the same version of firefox, and he doesn't have this problem, but nothing shows up under his plugins dialog. The about:plugins page does load and looks like this: Shockwave Flash MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes Default Plugin MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled * All types .* No
Update: It looks like this bug is actually related to iptables. When iptables is running, firefox crashes in the situation above and evolution-2.0.2-r1 crashes whenever I click the dropdown by an attachment. It doesn't make sense to me that these crashes would be related to iptables settings, but here are the settings, nonetheless: Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED and under the nat table: Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination SNAT all -- anywhere anywhere to:10.31.180.56
One other issue that might clear things up a bit: When visiting gentoo-portage.com or linuxcompatible.org in firefox with iptables running, independent of whether /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is on, the tops of the pages load immediately and then the content doesn't load for 3-5 mins. Right after /etc/init.d/iptables stop, even in the middle of a frozen load, the pages load properly again. Firefox and evolution also unfreeze if they're frozen when iptables goes down. Hope that helps.
Stale bug, reopen if this is still an issue with up-to-date firefox/iptables/whatnot versions...
