It's a little bit strange to answer own articles ... > Just freshly installed my old Fedora 10 system with Fedora 12 (32 bit), > and I was suprised to see that Firefox 3.5.5 (directly from mozilla.org) > crashes on any site with flash (Flash plugin 10.0.32.18 from adobe.com). > Both are the most recent versions. No other custom plugins installed > in Firefox. Obviously, most people don't seem to have any problems with Firefox and Flash if they use the Firefox installation that already comes with Fedora (thanks also to Meng Qiu). Looks like most people don't use the binary packages for Linux you can download from mozilla.org. So I've tried Fedora's Firefox. And guess what? IT WORKS! There must be a major difference in Fedora's copy of Firefox and mozilla.org's Firefox. And after some research I found it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mozilla_NSS_Conflict https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497251 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513024 Summary: The Firefox package from mozilla.org comes with a couple of included libraries that are not fully compatible with Fedora. And Adobe's Flash plugin triggers one of these incompatibilities. This issue is not new to Fedora 12, but also affects Fedora 11. Maybe that's the reason why I had no good results on my searches. A very simple workaround is to use "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreebl3.so" before starting Firefox. That forces Firefox to ignore its internal library and use the one provided by the system. In rare cases, most of Firefox's internal libraries have to be replaced (or simply deleted). The first of the three URLs above shows how. Wow, that was tricky ... But now it works! ;-) I still have to find out why the all-new-and-shiny "nouveau" graphics driver is so much slower than the old "nv" driver. And why does gnome-appearance-properties ignore anything I set as background? But that's a different story. ;-) Thanks folks ... Andreas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
