Firefox3 crashing

[Chris H]

Usually bombs out when viewing a page with a flash component, but funnily enough, not youtube.

 

Terminal gives

 

[chris@localhost ~]$ firefox3
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtote
m-complex-plugin-gstreamer.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin-gstreamer
.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE]
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  6171 Segmentation fault	  "
$prog" ${1+"$@"}
[chris@localhost ~]$

 

2008 KDE 3.5 fully updated and using flash 10

[AussieJohn]

It still occasionally does that to me as well. Does it even with earlier versions of Adobe Flash. Also does it in 2009 with the fireox3.

damned annoying but have found that restarting the same page, the video plays OK.

 

Seems to be a bug but no one seems to be sure if it is in Firefox or Flash.

 

Cheers. John.

[Chris H]

I've often had the experience you have John but as you say revisiting or clearing the cache and cookies usually seems to fix it. Not this time though. There are specific pages that refuse to co-operate.

 

Plays fine in Opera though!

[scarecrow]

The totem gstreamer browser plugin is highly problematic (to put the issue mildly...), and libxaw with xine-ui/gxine is even worse.

The best solution for streaming media in your browser is mplayer/win32codecs/gnome-mplayer/gecko-mediaplayer. It works almost flawlwssly- no crashes, almost all kind of media supported. Works with Firefox, Seamonkey, Kazehakase, Opera, and Konqueror in the 3.5.X series (but not with the 4.1.X one). No idea about epiphany and the webkit-based browsers, you have to try yourself.

Edited November 1, 2008 by scarecrow

[Chris H]

Thanks, will look into it

[scarecrow]

OK, but for best results you must get the mplayer build that's in PLF. The one in the regular repo is built with several proprietary formats support disabled, so it won't stream many online media.