The firefox plugins installed by helix-player can cause crashes

[Evan Carroll]

Tested w/ 64 bit

Problem Files:
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/nphelix.xpt

Those files should be removed, the installer isn't made aware of helix's interaction with firefox, though a firefox-helix package or anything of the like, and they will repeatedly crash on the following web site:
http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/06/cusa/cats/rec.html

This is outputted so stdout
"LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library libXext.so"
And another error about libXext or something of thelike.

I didn't bother symlinking around, I simply didn't want helix interacting with firefox.

I'm not sure what triggered the helix plugins, the site has flash.

Again this bug affects anyone on 64bit w/ helix-player,

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Not a firefox issue.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please install libxext6 and attempt to reproduce the crash.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Sorry about the above request. libxext6 is a dependency already; this is a bug in helix-player.

[Evan Carroll (evancarroll)]

It is a bug in ubuntu just as much, the user should have been made aware of this interaction with firefox.

mozilla-mplayer - MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla
gxineplugin - the xine video player, GTK+/Gnome; launcher plugin for Mozilla
kaffeine-mozilla - mozilla plugin that lanches kaffeine for supported media types
libflash-mozplugin - GPL Flash (SWF) Library - Mozilla-compatible plugin

IE. include in helix-mozilla, not helix-player. I was under the impression while pursuing this bug, that my copy was vanilla.

By any means the bug renders such a large portion of web sites useless the package should either be removed entirly or repackaged as such.

[Johnathon (kirrus)]

Hi,
Is this still an issue for you?

[Evan Carroll (evancarroll)]

I would consider this an issue as long as helix-player is being packaged in such a ridiculous fashion. Helix-player should not install a mozilla extension by default. This is why debian supports meta-packages.

Helix-bundle
-Helix-player
-mozilla-helix

What erks me about this is the instability image it creates for Firefox because something covertly taints the installation. Fixing the bug that caused the crash, isn't the problem. It is the packaging.

[Johnathon (kirrus)]

Changing the way the packaging is done is a dev-issue, so should be posted about on the mailing lists. This bug report doesn't cover that problem, it only covers the bug that caused the crash.

This page: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists would be a good place to look for which mailing list to send an email about the packaging issue to.

I assume that this particular bug has been fixed?

[Johnathon (kirrus)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!