FS#3050 - Firefox + flashplugin = crash

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Caige nash (menator) - Saturday, 06 August 2005, 09:36 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Using firefox 1.0.6 with flashplugin 7.0.25.0-1 from the extras repository: Firefox will crash unexpectedly while viewing certain sites. Able to reproduce while trying to access "http://www.cnn.com" and "http://www.myspace.com".
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 07 August 2005, 21:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Additional comments about closing:  Just disable composite and try again when it reaches "stable" quality (xorg 6.9 maybe?)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 06 August 2005, 15:15 GMT
Hmm, can't reproduce this bug on my system with neither firefox, nor epiphany/galeon.
Comment by Caige nash (menator) - Sunday, 07 August 2005, 01:27 GMT
I have solved this issue by removing the composite module from my xorg.conf. Not sure if this is a firefox bug, flash bug, or something else. This is the error I was getting:

(firefox-bin:2156): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)

[menator@fireball ~]$ /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-1.0.4/run-mozilla.sh: line 159: 2156 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Sunday, 07 August 2005, 03:04 GMT
The composite extension is known to do this among other things, and xorg still classifies it as "alpha quality".
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 07 August 2005, 21:54 GMT
Also, it seems you're crashing firefox 1.0.4 instead of 1.0.6, the version in testing doesn't have those G_MAXLONG warnings anymore ;)

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