FS#12368 - Flashplugin 64-bit crashes Epiphany

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Saturday, 06 December 2008, 22:41 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Monday, 08 December 2008, 21:49 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Douglas Soares de Andrade (dsa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

With the 64-bit flash plugin installed, Epiphany instantly crashes (with no console output) on any website that includes Flash content. This appears not to be an upstream bug - I cannot duplicate it on Debian. Perhaps it has something to do with Arch Linux's optimizations?

Additional info:
* flashplugin 10.0.d20.7-3
* epiphany 2.24.2.1-1

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install Flash plugin. If you do not have the Testing repo enabled, get it from Adobe's website and put the .so file in ~/.mozilla/plugins.
2. Restart Epiphany.
3. Go to www.youtube.com, or any other site with Flash content. Epiphany should crash.
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Monday, 08 December 2008, 21:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Please send complaints / reports to Adobe
Comment by Douglas Soares de Andrade (dsa) - Sunday, 07 December 2008, 13:28 GMT
I dont have a x86_64 box, so i cant help right now. Can someone with x86_64 help us with this ? Any trace ? Anything ? Could you start epiphany in the console and see if we have some log ?

Thanks
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Sunday, 07 December 2008, 14:09 GMT
works for me
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 07 December 2008, 15:28 GMT
Works fine here. Note that this thing is still a beta and that all plugins are executed in-process. If you have one plugin that conflicts with flash, it will take down your browser.
Back in the days when we had to use nspluginwrapper, there were no such things as browser crashes, because flash would just kill the nspluginviewer application.

This is not a bug in epiphany or xulrunner, but something in a binary-only plugin. As Adobe doesn't opensource their flash, we can't investigate or fix this issue.

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