I also experienced this issue on 64 bit hardy. I'm glad to find a bug on the issue, it's really quite annoying to restart Firefox every few hours.
Earlier in the week, I built my own packages to replace hardy's flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper, and the issue seems to have gone away. Firefox has been running the entire time without a restart and flash continues to work perfectly. No more segfaults in dmesg. I guess this would indicate the problem is not upstream? Here's a rough outline of how that's done, for those interested: apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree nspluginwrapper wget http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/files/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0.tar.bz2 tar jxvf nspluginwrapper-1.0.0.tar.bz2 cd nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 # i needed some dev packages to build nspluginwrapper, YMMV apt-get install xorg-dev libc6-dev-i386 libstdc++6-dev g++-4.2-multilib ./configure make make install # hash -r if you use zsh like me :) cd .. wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz tar zxvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz cd install_flash_player_9_linux/ nspluginwrapper -i ./libflashplayer.so nspluginwrapper -v -a -u Restart firefox at this point and you should be using the new nspluginwrapper/flash setup -- firefox shows grey box instead of flash player on amd64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246450 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
