firefox, galeon, konqueror, opera all crashing when viewing flash sites for 4+ videos

[David Tyer]

appears that this bug has already been reported.
My system is a core2duo 4300 / gigabyte ds3 mb
2gb patriot ram 800mhz
960 gb storage sata hdd (across 3 drives)
2x ata/ide dvd-rw
running pure kubuntu 7.04 beta fully updated
have tried different nvidia drivers can recreate with all available nvidia drivers
nvidia 7900 gs 256mb video using proprietary nvidia driver and beryl composite window manager on xorg
system is not overclocked in anyway, so error is not occuring due to instability from overclocking
to recreate the error, simple pick a site of your choosing that uses flash video and watch the videos to completion
bug usually occurs when a movie is allowed to "finish" playing, or when the "back" button on the browser is used during playback
bug can be duplicated in galeon, konqueror, firefox (all current newest releases)
cannot duplicate bug in opera because this browser crashes before it will load for me
crash does not always occur immediately but typically occurs after watching 3 to 4 videos

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Where did you see that this bug had already been reported? Thanks in advance.

[David Tyer (dtyer33)]

Brian,

Thank you for responding to my bug report. When I went to enter this
information into the bug tracking database I did see where other people had
reported similar problems relating to sites utilizing FLASH causing the
various web browsers to crash. I am not particularly sure if their issues
were exactly the same as mine but the general theme I saw was that FLASH is
causing browsers to crash and other people are reporting on that also.

My personal experience with this issue is as I described. Essentially when
viewing a website (like youtube) for more than a couple of videos
firefox/galeon/konqueror are crashing hard. The process is failing to the
point it requires kill -9 <pid> or via GUI, send SIGKILL to process to
terminate. You cannot actively try to close the window and receive any
response from the offending programs. I can recreate the bug at will (within
reason, I cannot guarantee a crash on the first video but I can guarantee
that any of the above mentioned browsers will crash within ~5 to ~10 minutes
time when browsing flash activated sites. I initially thought this incident
was isolated to my system, however I have re-installed kubuntu 7.04 from
beta disc three seperate times since then (playing around with kubuntu
different drive configs, mistakes due to user error (lack of experience,
etc) .. and this bug has been recreatable during all the 3 clean
installations. I have had other linux distributions installed previously
(suse 10.2, fedora core 7 test, gentoo latest release installed from minimal
install cd) .. I have not been able to recreate this issue with the
aforementioned distributions. This leads me to believe it is something
specific to Kubuntu. (I believe the newest KDE is being used in 7.04beta and
that may be the culprit, but I am out of my element here as I am a convert
from windows land (vista is a dealbreaker for me, I am adjusting to linux
well now) ..

The system I am using is as follows:
Intel Core2DUO 4300 @ 1.8ghz (no overclocking *yet*)
Patriot 6400 Extreme Performance 2 GB dual channel matched set currently
timed at 4-4-4-12 and running @ 800mhz.
NVIDIA 7900 GS 256 DDRIII Video Card (evga brand)
Gigabyte DS3 core2duo motherboard revision 2.0
1 seagate 320gb perpendicular sata 3.0 gb/sec drive
2 hitachi deskstar 320gb sata 3.0 gb/sec drive
(all are brand new)
1 20x Dual Layer DVD+-RW/RAM w/Lightscribe drive
1 16x Dual Layer DVD+-RW drive
22" Sun Microsystems branded Sony Trinitron
1985 Model IBM Model M keyboard (yes the clicky one)
Currently using a Linksys 10/100 Lan card due to poor support for the
Marvell Gigabit onboard lan
Jmicron controller running the dvd drives (glad ubuntu updated the kernel to
support this, this also caused a reinstall previously haha)

what else.. I think that about covers my system. It is extremely stable
otherwise and I do not believe it is the system causing the failure of the
software because I did not experience this using ubuntu Edgy Eft or any of
the other distributions I mentioned. I have not tried ubuntu 7.0x due to I
prefer KDE interface at this point. I am not sure if this is re-creatable
under the ubuntu gnome window manager.

I am ...

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Hm, it is probably due to Flash not being bug-free - and as Flash is closed source, we can do little about it:-(

[Pho3nix (philipp89)]

Sure, that it is Opera, too? Because I tried several browsers with the same site and well... firefox crashed, konqueror crashed, but opera was fine. Not sure what the reason is...

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Is this still an issue? There have been new version of flash and browsers as well.

I also do not see a link to any site causing this.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

TomasHnyk wrote:
> Is this still an issue? There have been new version of flash and
> browsers as well.
>
> I also do not see a link to any site causing this.
>
> ** Changed in: libflash (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
>
What version of flash are you using also full name of package and wher
eyou got them from. Is this on a 64bit PC? Do you see this issue on all
flash sites? Can you please give us 3 or 4 sites that you can reproduce
this on. WHat version of Ubuntu are you using? When it crashes how many
flash videos are you viewing? Are you using gnash? if not can you please
install mozilla-plugin-gnash from repos and see if you can confirm it
happens with that? do you have flashblock installed?
Just a few more questions.
do you have libflashsupport.so? to find out please run "locate
libflashsupport.so" without the " and please post the list here, If it
is installed we may need to remove it but wont know until i see it.

--
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
Linux User# 414246

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

TomasHnyk wrote:
> Is this still an issue? There have been new version of flash and
> browsers as well.
>
> I also do not see a link to any site causing this.
>
> ** Changed in: libflash (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
>
Tagged bug flash to help us track flash bugs.

--
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
Linux User# 414246

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!