Firefox Crashes on Some Sites

English Applications
1

System:

openSuse 11.0
AMD Phenom 9500+
3GB RAM
500GB SATA Drive
Nvidia 8800GT Graphics Adapter
Firefox 3.0.1

Shockwave Flash
File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124

Problem:

Firefox crashes when loading Opera browser: Home page

Error:

Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
/usr/bin/firefox: line 123: 3415 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM “$@”

2

Remove flash9, install libcurl3 and flash10. You can find the beta of flash10 at adobe’s website and libcurl3 should be in the repositories.

3

Thank you. Did not know there was a version 10 beta.

4

Removed libflashplayer.so from /usr/lib/Browser_Plugins.

Downloaded Adobe Flash 10 beta as an RPM. Installation failed looking for libcurl3; I have libcurl4. libcurl3 is not in the repositories.

Downloaded tarball of Adobe Flash 10 beta. Copied libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/Browswer_Plugins. Firefox shows no flash plugin now.

5

Created symbolic link: ln -s libcurl.so.4.0.1 libcurl.so.3

Flash 10 shows as a plugin.

Firefox crashes on some flash sites with the following error:

/usr/bin/firefox: line 123: 579 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM “$@”

6

Uninstalled Firefox.

Installed stand-alone version.

Firefox will not run at all.

This is the sort of thing that keeps people from using Linux.

7

Instead of creating the symbolic link, try installing the actual curl3 package.

Webpin

8

Reinstalled Firefox 3.0.1 through Yast.

Installed libcurl3 from 1-click install.

Loaded Oprah.com - Live Your Best Life.

Received error:

line 126: 6942 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM “$@”

Firefox still crashing on flash content.

9

Installed Opera from Yast.

Flash content works.

Oprah.com does not display flash content.

Opra does not crash, however.

10

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 02:46 +0000, mooreted wrote:
> System:
>
> openSuse 11.0
> AMD Phenom 9500+
> 3GB RAM
> 500GB SATA Drive
> Nvidia 8800GT Graphics Adapter
> Firefox 3.0.1
>
> Shockwave Flash
> File name: libflashplayer.so
> Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124
>
> Problem:
>
> Firefox crashes when loading ‘Opera browser: Home page’
> (http://www.opra.com)
>
> Error:
>
> Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set
> and is not UTF-8
> /usr/bin/firefox: line 123: 3415 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM
> “$@”

I have no idea. Works for me. I’m using 64bit openSUSE 11.0 with
firefox 3.0.1… HOWEVER, I am using 32bit firefox and NOT the 64bit
one. I find flash can be unstable on almost any site under 64bit
firefox. I haven’t had any issue using 32bit firefox.

My flash is somewhat of a custom one off though… but regular flash
works too… my flash has support for alternative sound sources for
network sound via esound (so I can NX into my desktop and hear the
audio from flash).

11

I’m using suse 11.0 32bit.

Oh well. Thanks for trying.

12

I’m using the 64-bit Firefox and Flash with nspluginwrapper and it works fine. Even get sound via ESD (but that’s a small customisation of mine via an alternate libflashsupport). I didn’t have to do anything special, I installed from the standard repos.

I keep reading about people with these problems. I’m curious how this happens, even on a new install. Here are the versions I have:

MozillaFirefox-3.0.1-0.1
flash-player-9.0.124.0-10.1
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5.99.20071225-22.2

I have some 32-bit 11.0 installations I use also and it works fine there too. Can’t tell you if nspluginwrapper is involved in 32-bit Flash playback though.

13

I’m using:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070400 SUSE/3.0.1-8.1 Firefox/3.0.1

Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0.0 d569
14

Could it be you have libflashsupport installed? I find that this causes the flash plugin to crash often, especially on Adobe Buzzword.

15

Removed libflashsupport. Flash now works properly.

Thank you very much for your help. I truly appreciate it. I had given up and was about to perform a complete reinstall.

16

Good to hear! The only things that package provides is pulseaudio support and SSL for flash apps. I hope they update that package soon so Buzzword will work correctly.

17

I had installed Pulseaudio to try to get Second Life voice working. I guess that really borked things. I removed Pulse.

Thanks for the help. Really appreciate it.