im mad as hell firefox beta 3 ver? 5 does not play videos online im about to give up on linux ubuntu 7.10 was better

[uni_max_zero]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I downloaded and installed ubuntu hardy 8.04 and the firefox 3 beta 5 is having problems playing online videos such as Youtube, watch movies.com, and other video sites, i have lost the whole day trying to find the fix i am so depress over this i wanted to watch some movies on line but I had no problems with videos using the older version of firefox on ubuntu 7.10, i did not want to use any program that is beta i do not want to be a tester, what the hell.....

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 4 21:40:18 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64

[Steven Harms (sharms)]

I am assuming you mean 'flash videos'. Can you provide more details about which videos do not play? Have you read: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash
?

[rolleiman (mcrbayerdesign)]

I'm having the same issue, and the video may not be just flash either. but it is crashing everytime I'm trying to look at a youtube page, any of them for that matter. I think it may be looking at the scripting for media stuff and crashes.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

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rolleiman wrote:
| I'm having the same issue, and the video may not be just flash either.
| but it is crashing everytime I'm trying to look at a youtube page, any
| of them for that matter. I think it may be looking at the scripting for
| media stuff and crashes.
|
We need alot more info from everyone on this case. Can you please attahc
a copy of the page about:plugins also need websites that cause this if
you each can provide 3 websites that you see this issue on maybe we can
than try to reproduce this. are you both using AMD64?

NOTE: This might be the swfdec crash that ive seen in other bug reports.

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~ John Vivirito

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[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

unassigning steve due to bug team changed rules to not add your name to assignee if you are triaging the bug. This spot is open to use if you plan on fixing the bug, you can subscribe to the bug if you wish to be updated on it.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 01:22:26PM -0000, rolleiman wrote:
> I'm having the same issue, and the video may not be just flash either.
> but it is crashing everytime I'm trying to look at a youtube page, any
> of them for that matter. I think it may be looking at the scripting for
> media stuff and crashes.
>

this is a flash bug not a firefox one

 affects ubuntu/flashplugin-nonfree
 status incomplete
 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status invalid

 - Alexander