On Saturday 23 May 2009, dhk wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dhk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages
> >> are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been
> >> hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example
> >> I can not even go to ebay ( http://www.ebay.com ), the page flashes and
> >> then firefox crashes. Does anyone know what's causing this and how it
> >> can be fixed?
> >
> > My guess would be flash... try uninstalling flash, java,
> > nspluginwrapper, disabling add-ons, etc one by one until you find the
> > cause.
>
> It was the adobe-flash. I uninstalled it and all was fine. The emerge
> -pv adobe-flash looks like the following:
> [ebuild N ] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 USE="32bit (multilib)".
>
> I installed it again and Firefox crashes on certain sites. So now it's
> uninstalled again. At least Firefox is stable now. Is there a flash
> that works?
If you are on amd64 you could specify the -32bit use flag.
HTH
-Robin
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