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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #209634
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 209634

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knarf (launchpad-ubuntu-f) wrote :

The required information is a valid stack trace. This is impossible to get from the nonfree flash plugin as it does not contain symbols (it has been stripped) and the source is not available.

Your crashes/hangs seem to be different from the ones I describe in this bug report so you probably are plagued by another bug. The crashes I describe occur when starting a new video after one (or more) has already been played. I do not see crashes/hangs when leaving video pages.

If only Adobe's license would allow it these problems could be solved by writing a complete free flash player... but the license explicitly forbids this:

http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/fileformat/faq/#item-1-8

"...Can I use the File Format Specification to create a SWF interpreter or player?
     No, the File Format Specification is provided for the specific purpose of enabling software applications to export to the SWF file format..."

One proprietary format to bring them in and in the crashes bind them...