Unfortunately, I've since gone moved to Ubuntu 8.10 and then to Linux Mint 6. I won't be able to try out your solution, but I appreciate that you got back to me on this. Thank you very much for your help.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Gramps <[email protected]> wrote: > We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't > heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested > information? > > Try > sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree > > Did this help the problem. > > Thanks! > > -- > Firefox crashing on youtube site > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253803 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” source package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Firefox crashing when I try to switch to full screen youtube viewing mode. > > Using Ubuntu 8.04 and firefox with the below version information > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 > Firefox/3.0.1 > > Firefox crashes when I try to switch to full screen mode on youtube. After > I force kill firefox it won't let me restart it because it says firefox is > still running but not responding. > > When this happens and I try to reboot, my entire Ubuntu 8.04 OS crashes and > I need to perform a cold reboot. > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > Date: Thu Jul 31 18:10:26 2008 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia > Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 > PackageArchitecture: i386 > ProcEnviron: > > > PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: firefox-3.0 > Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686 > -- Jim Horton (443) 857-9601 -- Firefox crashing on youtube site https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253803 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
