Firefox version 3.0.8 locks up/crashes (display dims) when attempting to run a Youtube video, from my version of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

[David Charles]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I'm new to Ubuntu and Linux - I've not posted any bugs before.

This is the verision of Firefox I'm running:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032711 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.8

on version 8.10 Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibex). About 80% of Youtube videos cause an application lock up. I have used the system monitor tool to stop the process.

I hope the bug information I attempt to record is accompanying this report.

Thank you

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Christopher Griffiths (chris)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please try to obtain a backtrace by following the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs? Also, please answer these questions:
Is this crash reproducible? If so, which are the steps that lead to it?
Which flash package do you have installed?
Which Java package do you have installed?
Which Firefox extensions do you have installed?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

Chris.

[Jim McCuskey (jim-mccuskey)]

FWIW, I had the same problem with intrepid, using the nonfree flash package. To get around it, I removed any packages related to flash, and downloaded an installer (for flash 10) from adobe.com and ran it.

With jaunty, the nonfree package from the repositories works fine for me.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Since this report have a long time without activity, please could you check (if is possible) in latest version included in Karmic if this issue is still happening? Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]