[Edgy] Firefox crashes on sites with Flash if old profile directory is used

[Aaron Whitehouse]

I just upgraded from Dapper to Edgy Knot 3. When I was using Dapper I had the Flash plugin installed. I have not installed any plugins on Edgy at the moment.

Whenever I visited a site with flash e.g.:
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http://tvnz.co.nz
http://www.airnewzealand.co.nz
http://www.flash.com (resolves to adobe)
https://www.slingshot.co.nz/DesktopDefault.aspx

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Firefox would crash with the following error:
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** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 118 error_code 8 request_code 144 minor_code 3)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
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I tried with a clean profile directory and those pages worked as expected. Deleting the plugins folder of my old profile directory has fixed the problem.

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

These are the files that were in the plugins folder of my old profile directory that were causing it to crash.

[ZiOns (cfourcaud)]

I have the same problem when the flashplugin-nonfree package is installed, or if I install the flash plugin directly from firefox. Same behavior and same error message as above.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Aaron, we had to remove your attachment because it's the Adobe Flash plugin and we are not allowed to redistribute it.

This also confirms that your problem was related to the flash plugin.

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

Sorry! I should have thought of that.