Comments on: Fix for firefox crashes on flash contents when using libflashsupport in hardy

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 14 May 2011 19:35:11 +0000

Dudes - I tried everything nothing worked. Finally, increased video RAM size and voila…

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:56:49 +0000

Works great on 10.04 - Gracias.

By: JW

JW — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:20:36 +0000

My experience .. FF 3.04, crashing on flash intensive sites including rotten tomatoes, eddiebauer, etc.

I reinstalled the latest Flash .. no help
I disabled flash .. no help
I disabled the AVG Safe Search … NOW NO PROBLEMS!

I use AVG anti virus and in it’s latest incarnations it installs these browser “aids”. While I have liked AVG in the past it seems they are becoming as intrusive as Norton or McAffee is/was. Not exactly loving AVG’s newest stuff.

You results may vary but this works for me.

By: ds

ds — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:37:08 +0000

this tip didn’t do jack for me…

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:02:54 +0000

Yes, firefox craches and crashes and crashes and crashes across various versions regardless of activity. It did not do this in the past but IE did. And then some snotnose kid name firefox said “look at me, I have the testicular sufficiency that ie lacks, I’m perfect.” And the world fell in love--probably even fondles firefox’s keyboard and all. But just as Microsoft familiarity bred customer contempt firefox is doing the same thing, perhaps more, verging on hate with a vengence. Hang out a suffer if you want.

Today IRON is where FF was about the time of FF v01. By my reconning we have a couple of years of clean sailing before IRON screws up as well. Its software, the company will declare you to be the revenue center that supports their product regardless of its condition.

G.M.A. (Sandy) Corby
dawgSandy@yahoo.com

By: JimmytheGeek

JimmytheGeek — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:33:38 +0000

I’m on Hardy as well, but I ran into trouble. Looks like the step “sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree” fails with a 404 error.

The following NEW packages will be installed:
flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/18.8kB of archives.
After this operation, 168kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages …
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database … 118406 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from …/flashplugin-nonfree_10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2_i386.deb) …
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2) …
Downloading…
--12:55:21-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
=> `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz’
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com… 96.6.2.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|96.6.2.70|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
12:55:22 ERROR 404: Not Found.

download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

The current link on Adobe site is http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ where you can get install_flash_player_10_linux.deb and install via “sudo dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb” I was able to use flash without restarting FF.

By: Mauricio Roman

Mauricio Roman — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:32:07 +0000

I am on Hardy, and these directions worked perfect!

Thank you, UbuntuGeek!

By: sails

sails — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:53:04 +0000

OK I have found that the screen saver option is not the real problem BUt i have reduced the crashing by quite a lot! how ? you ask!

ok listen UP people: the Idea came to me when someone mentioned that it was happening to machines running in “parallel Ram” mode!

IN MY BIOS I DID 2 THINGS:

I REMOVED THE PARALLELISATION OF THE RAM
and (i think this did it) I INCREASED THE AMOUNT OF RAM RESERVED FOR VIDEO FROM 30 TO 100

The result?:
1.A lot less crashes(firefox is still bugging a little but rare other progs. clean)
2.I can watch movies full screen with no choppy images or sound displacement

I hope this works for you guys, all the best to you all

sails.

By: sails

sails — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:23:18 +0000

YYYes!!!
I found found what seems to be the source of this problem for Ubuntu Users:

The SCREEN SAVER

I disconected my screen saver and since I have not had a single crash in any programe:
“as well as firefox my other programmes, games or applications would close(crash) from time to time but now its been 36 hours of crash free sailing .
Hope this works for you guys
Sails.

By: Mandie

Mandie — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:24:54 +0000

I had problems with Firefox and IE crashing all the time. I’ve just upgraded my laptops RAM from 512Mb to 2Gb and it’s stopped crashing. My guess is that a lot of internet sites now have videos and gizmos etc running on them and my RAM wasn’t man enough to deal with it.

By: Ntwrx

Ntwrx — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:19:34 +0000

hey thnx for the nspluginwrapper, its working good so far for me, i’ve been watching alota videos on youtube jus to see it crash cuz thts wat always happen when i go there, but to my surprise i havent had one crash yet.
this plugin is a life saver, the only drawback is it makes the video loads jus a lil bit slower than usual but thts bearable
thnx again !

By: john.doe

john.doe — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:20:16 +0000

@29: The official PulseAudio website is keeping track to resolving this issue:

http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#FlashPlayer

Currently, there’s a Ubuntu-specific link to this forum thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4928900

By: RVadict

RVadict — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:31:43 +0000

I am wondering if this is still a valid workaround or is there a more permanent solution? I have numerous firefox 3 crashes in ubuntu and they seem to happen when I click on links that launch a popup or on video-related links. The errors are related to my utils.js file.

I am not sure how to even diagnose where the problems are coming from.

Thanks for any help.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:24:47 +0000

I’ve found a reasonable workaround. Remove the nspluginwrapper as well as the flashplugin-nonfree. Re-install flashplugin-nonfree. Go to System > Preferences > Sound. Change all the playback methods to ALSA. This will effectively disable Pulseaudio, and avoid the grey screen of death that is prevalent with the offered solution. Hopefully they can get the bugs worked out of Pulse ASAP.

By: Strydar

Strydar — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:08:29 +0000

I did the “fix” and I no longer had the crashes happening, but as others here I had a blank box where the flash video should have been. I did some looking around and I also installed swfdec-mozilla and dependencies (sudo aptitude install swfdec-mozilla). I could view (with sound) the youtube videos again without crashing. This was on a 32 bit system. I hope this helps and good luck!

By: Satish

Satish — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:54:55 +0000

Thanks, though this hasn’t completely solved the issue, it has reduced it from painful to bearable

By: michael skramstad

michael skramstad — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:31:21 +0000

That solution didn’t fix the problem on my 64bit AMD version of Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 installation. I installed the Swiftweasel web browser hoping that it would run without Flash problems but it also has the same issue.

By: Aram

Aram — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:41:10 +0000

I did this and I can’t say I’m too happy, my fault I didn’t read the comments.

Any ideas to go back to the way I had it ?

thanks.

By: Starterz

Starterz — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:13:01 +0000

Thank you for this tip. Works like a charm for a bug that is awful and frustrating. Why can’t Ubuntu fix such bugs through updates? It is just plain silly to leave to the user to search for solutions to such everyday problems. Thanks again.

By: Joe Kan

Joe Kan — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:00:36 +0000

Nearly every major website uses flash. Ubuntu needs to convince everyone to change their websites, or fix the flash-is-gray-square bug. I’m on 64-bit Athlon, btw. This is frustrating.