On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:09 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote: > > Bradley J. Longo wrote: > > > After about five months no one has fixed the youtube issue with Fedora. > > > If someone out there does not know, when watching youtube videos in > > > Firefox, Firefox randomly crashes. I saw a bug report filed on it a > > > couple months ago when I first experienced the issue and it seems to > > > have only gotten worse. After some recent frustration I went to check > > > on the status of the report I found a new thread for it here: > > > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438277 > > > > > > This issue has been around for long enough. Is something being done > > > about in Fedora 9? Will Firfox 3.0 fix this issue? > > > Normally I would not post the devel list about this, but normally bugs > > > don't exist for so long. > > > > sudo mv /usr/lib/libflashsupport.so /usr/lib/libflashsupport.so.disabled > > Dennis, you did not mean this -- did you? > > Apart from that it's about the most obscure way to remove the > libflashsupport package one can imagine, you loose libflashsupport's > functionality, which is essential to work around Flash's broken-ness in > using ALSA/PulseAudio to play sound. > > My advice would be to use nspluginwrapper, so that Firefox does not > suffer from Flash crashes. > What seems to happen in my case is that Flash crashes, nspluginwrapper leaves a grey screen and I am sometimes not able to use flash again until I restart the browser... however this has gotten lot less happening in the recent versions of firefox. I am using noscript plugin which may be part of the issue. However, I prefer that to my entire browser going down. Minefield does that enough as it is :). -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
