Crash when opening an URL which need Macromedia Flash

[costavi]

Binary package hint: firefox

I observed this a on a machine with a 3-4 days old ubuntu 6.10 installation.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Connect to the following page: www.oact.inaf.it
2) On right part of the page you find some red links, click on 'Utilità Astroweb'
3) If Macromedia is not yet installed, you will be prompted to check for the plugin, go search and install it
4) After the plugin starts the program crash
5) If you restart firefox, you will be prompted to restart your session, if you do it the program will crash again, and it will crash each time you connect to the URL and link given above.

[Tomasz Czapiewski (xeros)]

Please check if it crashes on other pages with flash.
Do you have 16bit display?
If yes, then try change it to 24bit and try again.
If it wont help start firefox with command:
XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 firefox
and check again.

[costavi (costavi)]

Actually the problem arised on a PC with an old Cirrud Logic Video card with a small memory, so the display is set to 16bit.
If I put the display to 24bit I must pass to a low resolution of 800x600, and the crash does not occur.
With 16bit 1024x768 the command:

XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 firefox

effectively avoids the crash.

[Tomasz Czapiewski (xeros)]

So that's a duplicate of bug #14911 - it does occur because of flashplugin bug.