Some Web pages that contain Flash make Mozilla 1.7.11, Firefox 1.0 - 1.0.7, Galeon 1.3.x (built with Firefox) and Konqueror (KDE 3.4.2) freeze. Three examples are: (1) http://www.theinquirer.net (2) http://beta.news.com.com/Ubuntu+carves+niche+in+Linux+landscape/2100-7344_3-5886194.html (3) http://www.stickdeath.com I think this problem has existed for at least six months. Disabling the Flash plug-in (net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.25) eliminates the problem. I have also tried using the Flashblock extension for Firefox. The extension replaces the Flash animation with an overlay image, thereby preventing the animation from loading. When the overlay image is clicked, the animation is supposed to load. In my case, this freezes the browser. Downgrading to netscape-flash-6.0.81 does not help. This is not the same as Bug #63918. Exporting XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 does nothing. I have a 16 (not 24/32) bit display. Browsers which are not affected at all include Elinks, Links, Dillo, Netscape 4.8 and Opera 8.5. I originally posted this as Bug #107844, but as instructed I'm posting it again since it appears to be an issue with Flash and not the browsers. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Other programmes I had running: KDE, Konqueror, Konsole, Kate, Kontact, D4x, XMMS, Galeon. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (!/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.13-gentoo-yama i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-yama i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2100+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=64 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -ffast-math -fprefetch-loop-arrays" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=64 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -ffast-math -fprefetch-loop-arrays" DISTDIR="/data2/portage-local/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache digest distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/gentoo ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_AU" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/data2/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/data2/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/data2/portage-local /data2/portage-bmg-main /data2/portage-gentopia" SYNC="rsync://mirror.internode.on.net/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm artswrappersuid audiofile avi bash-completion bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr crypt css cups curl dbus dga divx4linux dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds effects emboss encode esd faad fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran freetype freetype2 gb gd gdbm ggi ggz gif gimpprint glitz gnome gnome-libs gnome-print gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl icq imagemagick imlib inkjar ipv6 ithreads jabber java javascript jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal lesstif libcaca libg++ libwww lzo mad maildir matroska mbox mikmod mjpeg mmx mng mono motif mozilla moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mysql ncurses network nocd noplugin nptl nptlonly nvidia objprelink offensive ogg oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl oscar oss pam pdflib perl pic plugin png ppds prelink python qt qtmt quicktime rar readline real rtc samba scanner sdl session shadow shorten slang slp smime snmp speex spell sqlite sse ssl stream subtitles svg svga tcltk tcpd tex tga theora threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd videos vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows x86 xanim xface xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib linguas_en_GB userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Created attachment 69766 [details] stack trace for Firefox Stack trace (strace) for Firefox. Steps taken: 1. load 'strace firefox' from a terminal 2. firefox loads to my home page (which doesn't have any Flash) 3. I type http://www.theinquirer.net/ into the URL bar 4. the site partially loads, then Firefox freezes.
I can not do anything about flash problems when using a bianary package.
