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Date:      Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:07:30 -0800
From:      "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>
To:        Benjamin Dover <dawgeestyle@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?
Message-ID:  <20050215060730.GB31198@alzatex.com>
In-Reply-To: <5ae9cd550502140126a8d4bfd@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:26:12AM -0500, Benjamin Dover wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:20:50 -0800, Loren M. Lang <lorenl@alzatex.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Ben Dover wrote:
> > > Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with
> > > a Flash object Firefox core dumps.  The error is as follows:  Feb 13
> > > 18:57:53 w00f kernel: pid 27652 (firefox-bin), uid 0: exited on signal
> > > 6 (core dumped).  I have installed the following relevant ports:
> > > /usr/ports/www/firefox
> > > /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-firefox
> > 
> > Do you have flash 6 or 7 installed.  I never have 6 crash, but 7 is
> > horrible.
> 
> cd /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-firefox/
> w00f# cat distinfo
> MD5 (gplflash-0.4.12.tar.bz2) = 7d53803486b255665a80cd834ee3c463
> SIZE (gplflash-0.4.12.tar.bz2) = 378727
> w00f# cat pkg-descr
> This is GPL standalone Flash (TM) Plugin, that comes with FlashLib
> (libflash) distribution.

I'd definetly recommend uninstalling gplflash and installing one of the
official versions of flash by macromedia, go with flash 6 as it's more
stable.

> 
> Author: Olivier Debon <olivier@debon.net>
> WWW:    http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
> > 
> > >
> > > I'm confused if I should install the linux-firefox port or the other
> > > flash port.  What is the combination everyone has been having good
> > > luck with?
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> > --
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> > NT is the path to the darkside.
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> >

-- 
I sense much NT in you.
NT leads to Bluescreen.
Bluescreen leads to downtime.
Downtime leads to suffering.
NT is the path to the darkside.
Powerful Unix is.

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