Showing posts with label adobe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adobe. Show all posts

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Firefox Crashing When Searching And Playing Flash

I've been having this problem for quite sometime now with various versions of Firefox (3.5.7 here as of this writing).

Problem description: When there's something playing, or has already played with flash content (like youtube videos), and then I attempt to search for text in a page and that text is NOT found, the browser crashes (segfault).

I found 2 solutions to this, one of them seems more of a workaround rather than a solution, and the real problem seems to be coming from Adobe's Flash plugin for Linux (they just can never get it right...).

Solutions:
  1. Turn off search sound: open a tab and in the address type: about:config
    look for sound and then disable: accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound by double clicking it, then restart your browser.
  2. Use nspluginwrapper along with Adobe's libflash package. Whether the search sound is enabled or disabled, this should work just fine.