After upgrading to firefox 3.6.6 flash plugin crashes
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Hardy |
Expired
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Today a bunch of updates arrived and were installed through update-manager. Among these, firefox was upgraded from 3.0.19 to 3.6.6. After this upgrade, any page using flash is not loaded, a banner with "flash plugin crashed" appearing instead. When loading a page that needs the javaplugin, it does not work either with a lot of error messages appearing in the java console.
Googling a little, it seems that firefox 3.4 introduced something called "anti crash plugins" or something like this that deactivates plugins that take a certain amount of time to be started. This makes that plugins that are somewhat slow in showing up are not activated at all. If I have understood well, this amount of time was increased in version 3.6 trying to avoid this behaviour but apparently it does not work (or perhaps it needs to work a computer faster than mine).
I had to downgrade back to 3.0.19 to get flash and java working again. (By the way, downgrading was a painful task: many packets need downgrading including language packs, and in the upgrade-downgrade movement, the firefox icon has been lost and firefox has dissappeared from the menus and need to be started from the console).
From my point of view, this new feature, instead of avoiding crashes, generates a lot of new crashes. At least, an easy way to deactivate this unfortunate "anti crash feature" should be provided.
By the way, I am using hardy.
affects: | firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |
affects: | ubuntu → firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu Hardy): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. There's a preference, dom.ipc. plugins. timeoutSecs, set to 45 seconds by default that should allow most pages to load. Also, which Flash and Java plugins are you using?