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FS#17355 - [firefox] instability, maybe flashplugin-related

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pierre Chapuis (catwell) - Thursday, 03 December 2009, 02:32 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 20:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When run from the PekWM command launcher or ZSH, Firefox often crashes when I visit pages with Flash content (eg. YouTube). In I get the output:

zsh: bus error firefox

Sometimes it outputs these errors before (in any order / number):

(firefox:4207): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to `GtkObject'

(firefox:4207): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: instance with invalid (NULL) class pointer

(firefox:4207): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handler_disconnect: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

If I run it from Bash instead, it stays alive, but I still get the error messages.

I run Arch x86_64, firefox 3.5.5-1, flashplugin 10.0.32.18-1.
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 20:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  No response in ~1 month
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 07 December 2009, 04:58 GMT
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Waiting on Response)
Try with swfdec instead of flashplugin, if still crash please report to Adobe. Thanks.
Comment by Pierre Chapuis (catwell) - Monday, 07 December 2009, 11:45 GMT
swfdec is nothing like flashplugin, you can almost only watch videos with it and I use Flash for lots of other things, so it is not an option.
I agree that I should report the bug upstream, I'm not sure it's only Adobe I should report it to though, because it looks to me like Firefox shouldn't crash even if Flash does. Also, I am not completely sure that it's Flash-related, I had crashes on pages that I think don't contain Flash. I will probably report it to Mozilla first.

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