On Wednesday 27 December 2006 11:29, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph Goncalves wrote: > > On Sunday 24 December 2006 10:39, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > >> * On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 08:26:07PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > >>> What is the best way to backgrade Firefox to version 1.5 in Ubuntu > >>> Edgy? > >> > >> I've done some more playing this. I backgraded to Firefox 1.5, still > >> got the problems, worked out it was the flash plugin causing Firefox > >> to crash. I'm now back to version 2 without flash - no great loss :-) > > > > You probably facing the problem the flash plug-in is having with the > > composite extension. You can use the XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 > > environment variable as a work around to the problem. Here is a > > reference to the problem I Googled: > > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/14911 > > Thanks Joseph, I've already tried that - still crashes on some sites. So > I'm flash free ATM :-)
Some other things to try:
* don't use 16-bit colour, use 24-bit (this worked for me)
* use the Flashblock extension to block most Flash animations
* use Gnash instead of Adobe's Flash Player
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