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From: dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 13:28:52
Message-Id: 4A194B92.9000207@optonline.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes by Robin Atwood
1 Robin Atwood wrote:
2 > On Saturday 23 May 2009, dhk wrote:
3 >> Paul Hartman wrote:
4 >>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net> wrote:
5 >>>> Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages
6 >>>> are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been
7 >>>> hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example
8 >>>> I can not even go to ebay ( http://www.ebay.com ), the page flashes and
9 >>>> then firefox crashes. Does anyone know what's causing this and how it
10 >>>> can be fixed?
11 >>> My guess would be flash... try uninstalling flash, java,
12 >>> nspluginwrapper, disabling add-ons, etc one by one until you find the
13 >>> cause.
14 >> It was the adobe-flash. I uninstalled it and all was fine. The emerge
15 >> -pv adobe-flash looks like the following:
16 >> [ebuild N ] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 USE="32bit (multilib)".
17 >>
18 >> I installed it again and Firefox crashes on certain sites. So now it's
19 >> uninstalled again. At least Firefox is stable now. Is there a flash
20 >> that works?
21 >
22 > If you are on amd64 you could specify the -32bit use flag.
23 >
24 > HTH
25 > -Robin
26
27 It doesn't work. I tried adding www-plugins/adobe-flash -32bit to the
28 package.use file and Firefox still crashes.
29
30 Thanks,
31
32 dhk