Namoroka freezes on Pandora, YouTube, and my iGoogle home page which includes imbedded YouTube videos

[Don R. Crawley]

Binary package hint: firefox

Source package: firefox %u
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
firefox:
  Installed: 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic
  Candidate: 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

I expected to be able to browse the Internet, view YouTube videos, listen to music on Pandora, but the browser screen fades to a black and white image and freezes. This is occurring on two different systems; one is an HP Paviliion running Ubuntu 10.04 with an AMD processor, the other is a vanilla system running Ubuntu 9.10 with an Intel processor.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Sun Apr 11 06:34:18 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic
 firefox-gnome-support N/A
 firefox-branding 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
ThirdParty: True

[kolya (mar-kolya)]

Have same issue on gmail page (it probably has some flash embeded). This problem appeared after yesterday's update.
Turning off dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so helps.
I'd be happy to provide additional debugging info if required.

[Draycen DeCator (ddecator)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. As kolya found, this issue is most likely related to the update in Firefox that now runs certain plugin processes outside of the browser in order to prevent plugins from crashing the entire browser. Can you please go into "about:config" and toggle "dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so" to "false" and see if that resolves the issue? If it does, then this is a duplicate of bug 513887.

[Cleveland Rock (clevelandrock)]

I was having the same problem. I did what Draycen DeCator said and the issue was resolved.

[Don R. Crawley (don-soundtraining)]

Thank you. That seems to have solved it.

Don

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 9:31 PM
To: Don R. Crawley
Subject: [Bug 560700] Re: Namoroka freezes on Pandora, YouTube, and my iGoogle home page which includes imbedded YouTube videos

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. As kolya found, this issue is most likely related to the update in Firefox that now runs certain plugin processes outside of the browser in order to prevent plugins from crashing the entire browser. Can you please go into "about:config" and toggle "dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so" to "false" and see if that resolves the issue? If it does, then this is a duplicate of bug 513887.

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Namoroka freezes on Pandora, YouTube, and my iGoogle home page which includes imbedded YouTube videos
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560700
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Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: firefox

Source package: firefox %u
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
firefox:
  Installed: 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic
  Candidate: 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

I expected to be able to browse the Internet, view YouTube videos, listen to music on Pandora, but the browser screen fades to a black and white image and freezes. This is occurring on two different systems; one is an HP Paviliion running Ubuntu 10.04 with an AMD processor, the other is a vanilla system running Ubuntu 9.10 with an Intel processor.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Sun Apr 11 06:34:18 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic
 firefox-gnome-support N/A
 firefox-branding 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
ThirdParty: True

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[Unixman (unixman)]

I had the same problem after the last update. Draycen DeCator's solution fixed it. Thank you.

[Draycen DeCator (ddecator)]

Since the workaround worked, it appears this is indeed a duplicate of bug 513887, so I will be marking as such. All further discussion should be held on that report. Thanks again for reporting this to Ubuntu!