Comment 27 for bug 114363

This, at least for me, is a sound issue; more specifically an alsa vs
oss issue.

I can replicate the crash with the following steps:

1) open xmms
2) play arbitrary mp3 (using the OSS output driver "libOSS")
3) open new instance of firefox
4) go to youtube.com and play random video (you should not hear any
sound from the video as OSS has taken over /dev/dsp)
5) while the video is playing, stop xmms (not pause)
6) press back on browser
7) crash!

I solved this problem by setting *everything* to use alsa. It seems as
though flash (which, for me, uses alsa) does not play nice with OSS.

D.

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 02:33 +0000, Drew Woodard wrote:
> @Kevin Titus
> I don't expect a response to this but I want to say that having "a bunch of separate windows and run various combinations of different Flash videos" may not be the most revealing test.
>
> I have always been able to have lots of flash windows open at the same
> time. The problem I am having, along with many other people, only
> occurs when the last instance of flash is closed. As I mentioned
> earlier in this bug report if I have flash loaded somewhere in the
> background, either in another browser or another tab, I can do anything
> with flash and it won't crash me. The only time the crash was occurring
> was when I close or navigate away-from the only thing using flash.
>