Firefox Freezes After click on hyperlink after video

[JDnewbie]

Binary package hint: firefox

1. watch a Youtube video (not sure about google video)
2. after watching the video click on any hyperlink to another video
3. The application may freeze (not crash)
Whether it freezes or not seems to be somewhat random
The only way to exit is to kill the program

[Cristóbal M. Palmer (cristobalpalmer)]

(1) You're using flashplugin-nonfree?
(2) You're using GNOME?
(3) What type of sound card do you have? (check with 'lspci | grep audio' without the quotes)
(4) What is the output of 'mozilla-firefox -V' without the quotes?

[JDnewbie (tebibyte)]

(1) yes I am
(2) Yes
(3) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
(4) when it's not crashed:
FIREFOX_DSP=aoss
APPLICATION_ID=firefox
CMDLINE_DISPLAY=
DISPLAY=:0.0
OPTIONS=
DEBUG=0
DEBUGGER=
Running: aoss /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox

I had to go through some steps to make the sound from flash to work. That may have caused the bug. The HOWTO I followed is located here:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186594&highlight=flash+sound+mixing

[JDnewbie (tebibyte)]

WAIT! (1) was incorrect. I belive I used the Flash Player Plugin that installs from within firefox, NOT the player that is listed in Synaptic.

[Cristóbal M. Palmer (cristobalpalmer)]

I can't duplicate that here. When I try to install from the firefox plugin finder, the install fails. Can you install flashplugin-nonfree and see if you still get this crash?

[JDnewbie (tebibyte)]

I uninstalled the firefox plugin with the intructions from adobe, and then installed the synaptic plugin. The bug still occurs. The freeze seems to be random. This is a freeze, not a crash. I have to do a force quit. Regardless to whether flash is causing the problem, it shouldn't be allowed to take firefox down with it.

[JDnewbie (tebibyte)]

I do not receive any error messages upon freezing like bug #35942