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FS#1465 - Mozilla crashes when entering a flash webpage and the Composite extension is enabled

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andres Morales (vandre) - Friday, 17 September 2004, 16:14 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Friday, 17 September 2004, 22:26 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Dale Blount (dale)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I was able to recreate this problem in my computer:

installed:
mozilla-firefox via pacman
flashplugin via pacman
xorg R 6.8-3
Nvidia drivers (Nvidia Geforce 2 Go)


When I edited my xorg.conf and added the Composite extension, the browser crashed when I tried to enter a flash site..
(application/octet-stream)    flash.sh (0.1 KiB)
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Closed by  Dale Blount (dale)
Thursday, 14 October 2004, 01:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Andres Morales (vandre) - Friday, 17 September 2004, 16:26 GMT
I found this post related to this problem

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-September/msg00178.html

Comment by Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318) - Friday, 17 September 2004, 22:55 GMT
I've posted a similar bug earlier.. Here is how to fix it... Create a file in /etc/profile.d called flash.sh. Include this in it:
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
You still have your composite, you still have your flash. Works perfectly. This should be fixed ASAP, your browser not working correctly is a very serious problem
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Saturday, 18 September 2004, 02:20 GMT
I'm having problems reproducing this - using transset n 0.6 on a firefox window makes it dissapear for me (using nvidia binary drivers). Using "nv" from xorg makes the window transparent AND I can hit flash sites.
Comment by Andres Morales (vandre) - Saturday, 18 September 2004, 03:57 GMT
I think this is the same bug as 1451. Lukas Sabota has posted a quick fix for the bug. (Check earlier comment)

About reproducing the bug, this is what I did:
1. Upgraded to xorg 6.8-3,
2. Added the following to my xorg.conf

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection
3. Be sure that im using nvidia drivers in xorg.conf (i didnt tried with nv)

4. Clean install of firefox, and then of flash plugin (I also deleted the .mozilla dir in the user's home directory)

5. Go to www.nvidia.com ..(uses flash) page crashes.


Hope this helps..

ps. I didnt try using the transset utility, I just started firefox, went to the webpage and it crashed

Comment by Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318) - Tuesday, 05 October 2004, 15:35 GMT
I don't know why this hasn't been added to the official flash package yet. I just posted the flash.sh that needs to be added. This should be done asap, it's very frustrating for your firefox to just crash randomly with no error message
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 05 October 2004, 15:48 GMT
because the composite extension is marked EXPERIMENTAL.
system-wide workarounds for experiemental applications/protocols are generally not made by Arch developers.

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