My apologies for the delay in responding. Before trying your suggestion, the following observations may be of interest: 1) my initial flash installation was done from the Linux link in the flash section of the firefox plugins page. 2) I did not install flash as root user (nor did I use sudo); I installed is under my own usernams. 3) I did *not* reboot or re-start X after initially installing flash. 4) As soon as firefox crashed, I proceeded directly to the bug reporting process as recommended by firefox. 5) Upon receiving your email, I first (without uninstalling flash) returned to the http://adobe.com/flashplugin page (the one that had "crashed firefox". This time, firefox did *not* crash! 6) I then went to the page that I had originally been trying to access, and which had originally advised me to install flash. http://www.gotuit.com/gtv/index.html?c=music&p=83833&s=1466526 I got exactly the same page as I had gotten before I had installed flash. It advised me that I needed to install flash (bear in mind that I *had* installed flash at this point). The icon that the page referred to *still* was not displayed.
7) At this point I felt it was safe to assume that uninstalling flash and returning to the adobe flashplayer page would not cause a crash either. Nevertheless, I proceeded to uninstall the flashplayer plug-in accorting to the instructions in the readme file within the flashplayer installation folder. An interesting observation is that those instructions refer to the removal of *three* files, but only two of them existed in the .mozilla/plugins folder. The file that was not present was one named x-shockwave-flash.desktop. I deleted the other two files (libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt). 8) I then re-started firefox and returned to the adobe flashplayer page. As predicted, firefox did *not* crash. 9) I then repeated the flashplayer install. 10) I once again started firefox and navigated to the adobe flashplayer page. This time it did *not* crash firefox. 11) Finally, I re-navigated to the gotuit page referenced earlier in (6), but I got the same result as I had previously (in (6.) 12) Final observations: The flashplayer installation instructions indicate that I can verify the flashplayer plugin installation by launching Mozilla and choosing Help > About Plug-ins from the browser menu. In firefox, there is no "About plug-ins" option in the help menu. Also, I notice that the instructions reference "Mozilla" as opposed to "Firefox". Further, the installation program had advised me that two additional fonts needed to be installed (I don't recall their names). I "assume" (bad idea) that those fonts would be installed by the flashplayer installation program, since the instructions gave no additional instructions for doing so separately. I also notice that by default, pop-ups are disabled in my firefox installation. All of the above took place on my Ubuntu Edgy Eft installation. Out of curiosity, I went to my windoze(2000) system (yuck!!!) and launched firefox on that system (which already has the flashplayer plugin installed). That system has no problem with either the adobe flashplayer page *or* the gotuit page -- they both work properly. I totally understand if, at this point, you deem this issue to be too obscure or unrepeatable or otherwise not worth your time to pursue. On the other hand, I feel very supportive of the open source community development paradigm. My systems exist for the purpose of educating myself; and I would be more than happy to conduct any further experiments or research that you feel might be of potential benefit. Even in the unlikely event that my systems get trashed and I need to re-install from scratch, that would be no problem at all for me. And I would consider it my priviledge to be able to contribute to the extent of my meager ability to the open source/ open standards effort. Thank you very much for your time and interest. Best regards, Steve Gerstung On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 23:40 +0000, John Vivirito wrote: > Thank you for reporting this bug. Can you please try the site without > flashplayer-mozilla and see if it crashes. > > ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) > Assignee: (unassigned) => John Vivirito > Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info > -- flashplayer site crashes firefox after new installation https://launchpad.net/bugs/76811 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
