firefox crashes when playing flashplayer

[jdelima]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

ubuntu 9.04 jaunty

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-17-generic i686

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. You seem to have an older version of Flash in your Firefox profile. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to try to delete the old version of Flash from your original profile.

You can start the profile manager with the following command:
firefox -ProfileManager

[jdelima (jdelima307)]

thank you for your email.

typing the command

firefox -ProfileManager

got me the following result:

Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".

how do i proceed?

Micah Gersten wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. You seem to have an older
> version of Flash in your Firefox profile. Could you please try this
> with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need
> to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to
> try to delete the old version of Flash from your original profile.
>
> You can start the profile manager with the following command:
> firefox -ProfileManager
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Does 'firefox -p' work?

On 01/06/2010 12:36 PM, jdelima wrote:
> thank you for your email.
>
> typing the command
>
> firefox -ProfileManager
>
> got me the following result:
>
> Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
>
> how do i proceed?
>
>
> Micah Gersten wrote:
>
>> Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. You seem to have an older
>> version of Flash in your Firefox profile. Could you please try this
>> with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need
>> to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to
>> try to delete the old version of Flash from your original profile.
>>
>> You can start the profile manager with the following command:
>> firefox -ProfileManager
>>

[jdelima (jdelima307)]

no! i get the same result

Micah Gersten wrote:
> Does 'firefox -p' work?
>
> On 01/06/2010 12:36 PM, jdelima wrote:
>
>> thank you for your email.
>>
>> typing the command
>>
>> firefox -ProfileManager
>>
>> got me the following result:
>>
>> Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
>>
>> how do i proceed?
>>
>>
>> Micah Gersten wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. You seem to have an older
>>> version of Flash in your Firefox profile. Could you please try this
>>> with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need
>>> to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to
>>> try to delete the old version of Flash from your original profile.
>>>
>>> You can start the profile manager with the following command:
>>> firefox -ProfileManager
>>>
>>>
>
>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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