Firefox hangs.. A LOT.

English Applications
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This was all I got from the hang


Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb7cd96d0 (LWP 6110)]
0xaff69f2c in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
(gdb) bt
#0  0xaff69f2c in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#1  0xaffea749 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#2  0xaffc2207 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#3  0xaffc22e3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#4  0xaffc04c4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#5  0xaffae6ae in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#6  0xaffaeb5b in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#7  0xaff9d90d in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#8  0xaffc12a0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#9  0xaffb4c89 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#10 0xaffb6730 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#11 0xaffc22fd in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#12 0xaffc04c4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#13 0xaff99886 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#14 0xafba571c in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#15 0xafe025a5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#16 0xafe02608 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#17 0xafe0c62a in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#18 0xafe1da56 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#19 0xafe3b089 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#20 0xafe74f68 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#21 0xafeeb904 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#22 0xafa0d076 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#23 0xafa0dc49 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#24 0x0b612748 in ?? ()
#25 0x099b2098 in ?? ()
#26 0x00000000 in ?? ()
22

Please refer to the last 2 posts, hope that helps.

23

Sorry, I must have missed those posts.

I don’t store any cache.

I have just performed an uninstall and reinstall as outlined in the site you posted. I will see how it goes now.

Thanks,

My flash version is now: 10.0 r22 which is a newer version than I was runing.

Hope this has fixed it, thanks for all the help :slight_smile:

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swstein wrote:

> Code:
> --------------------
>
> Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set
> and is not UTF-8
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 0xb7cd96d0 (LWP 6110)]
> 0xaff69f2c in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0xaff69f2c in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

Wow, that seems serious :-/

I would…

  1. Open a bug report on Novell’s bugzilla.

  2. Or try with the Adobe’s site flashplayer plugin and check if that works.

Adobe has it’s own version (10.x), not sure if this version plays nice with
openSUSE 10.3 but it is worth a try… IIRC, you only need to put the
downloaded file “libflashplayer.so” under your plugins directory.

Before making any change, make a copy of your original “libflashplayer.so”
file so you can easily restore it at any point.

Greetings,

–
Camaleón

25

Glad to hear, that my tutorial has fixed your problem.

26

Had just the same issues: Firefox 100% hung on youtube tab closing. Also, there was no sound while playing youtube videos.

Solved by installing “swfdec” + “swfdec-browser-plugin”.
Now works seamlesly. Also sound in youtube has appeared.

Before removed flash-player (Suse repo-update) and installed flash plugin from Adobe web-site. No results.