Firefox Flash Crash

[smjjohnson]

Thanks!

[TheRookie828]

holy shit star rating on youtube that lets you know this is an old ass video besides looking at the date it was uploaded

[RenaMai4]

i go to watch this video and my adobe flash plugin has crashed

once again.......

[Iamsofincool]

@RenaMai4 Same thing here.

[saulski90]

just downloaded this and it just happened to me is it normal

[KILLACAMFOO]

here is some help...it worked for me, hope it works for you.....

type in firefox crashes on youtube 3.6.8 into google, click on the THIRD link "firefox crashes everytime i connect with youtube. how do i solve..." Look at the bottom of that page for a link, then follow its instructions.

[blueskunk12]

It's easy to replicate it. All you have to do is breathe, and flash crashes. It's the worst version of flash ever created.

[kemodelalic]

still happens, I have Firefox 3.6.8 and Flash crashes it; YouTube doesn't but other flash things definitelly do

[melis256]

My firefox crashes if I somehow refresh the page and then the second the video starts I pause the video... and firefox just crashes to the repport bug to mozilla box.

[hackertc]

is not only on firefox, linux, etc... I have Fedora 12 and another computer with windows 7, when i enter sites with rich flash content the flash crushes. I think is a major Adobe flash bug.

[weespat]

LOL nice - Dope (the band) on the second (or was it third?) video

[MarkWilliams212]

im trying to download the latest version but when it gets to about 95% done firefox crashes and it takes me about 10 mins for it to work again.

[trilogypart3]

It's amazing how well Firefox works when Adobe and YouTube aren't in the equation. I have a lot of respect for Mozilla, but very little for Adobe and YouTube.

[TheDogThatMeows]

@trilogypart3 Funny that this doesn't happen with IE. I'm a 70% FF and 30% IE user... your comment is full of bull, it's a problem that comes from Mozilla and nowhere else. It's called crappy coding, it happens, it needs to be corrected that's all.

[love4musicuk]

My Firefox crashes when i try to post a video response

[xblackearthx]

i know abobe's flash player crash firefox all the time. but that's not a crash, it froze the browser.

[mklegend96]

ye i gt an asus eeepc 900 on linux and firefox. after i downloaded some add-ons it keeps flashing everywhere .

so my internet browser is flashing all the time and is messed up.

[Brandonmxb]

lol, you need to get some editing software.

[xXxEpicFailxXx]

my friefox crashes just when i start a video on youtube :(.....

can sum 1 help me solv it ?

[richi1173]

Its been fixed in the new beta 2.

[gsus787]

same here! never crashes in youtube but it crashes with every othe site that has flash! even a stupid widget on myspace crashes it! i cant even logg in to facebook!... but google chrome doesnt crash !!! try it! it only says " Flash plug in crashed" and u can still browse the webpage!

[creaturegreeny56]

i actually fixed my flash i had to reinstall firefox reinstall java runtime and reinstall flash. when you uninstall your firefox make should you delete your profile files and stuff it will say it in the uninstaller. ik this seems stupid but it actually worked for me

[lobaxx]

I us linux to, but i have no problem at all. But, when i use windows (for gaming), the same thing happens.

[VoiceFromSoul]

what for me helped is this..

download the addon ad blocker PLUS for firefox,,

then add this to it so it will block it,,

s .ytimg. com/yt/swf/PMS*.swf

(but everything on eachother , cause i couldnt do it on eachother, comment dont post then)

and then it will work, for me it did=) busy for hours with it:/ but finally a solution

good luck, peace

[dl4arab]

same problems Flash v10 \ Firefox v3.0.4

[AfoHT]

yes, same problem here, Running Mandriva 2008.1

[Hexachloraphine]

I have a problem started 0900hrs greenwich meantime on 14th nov 08 in which vids play fine and youtube works fine if i come in through a back door but its homepage crashes my firefox ver 3.0.4

whats goin on!!!!

[HyprisAce]

I have this same problem

[ShynePoe33]

solution?

[Jettboi93]

I know exactly how to fix all of Firefox 3 Crashes! You are all in luck, I know how to fix it! It deals with a certain folder that makes it does that! A bug! Just look at my newly uploaded tutorial on it! Thanks!

[LOCALPANIC]

Delicious irony.

[ghjj1]

oo an xps :)

currently on an xps as well

I use m140

[cobrachoppergirl]

Flash videos crash Firefox under Vista x64 too, with an Nvidia driver/video card... sometimes it works, then sometimes they will load but not play... then later.. will crash to blue screen of death.

[Sapwood2]

This happens on Windows in XP Home as well. It's just wonderful, now I am running out of choices to use to browse the web. It looks like I have Safari and Opera now.

[nateyp123]

try reinstalling firefox and reinstalling all the latest plugins

[vahnx1337]

Same thing happens to me and I'm on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, in Opera 9.25 and Opera 9.5 and Firefox. It crashes lots on Youtube. And people think Linux is stable... lol.

[merops]

This isn't a linux problem, it's a problem with the flash plugin for firefox. Complain to Adobe for providing poor support to linux users. Poorly written apps won't miraculously work if you run them on the most stable of operating systems.

[vahnx1337]

I stand by my statement. XP is the most stable OS I have ever used.

[adrenilineadicto]

I really feel bad for you then buddy

[vahnx1337]

You feel bad for me? Everyone I speak to that has actually used Linux knows how unstable it is compared to XP. And I'm not just talking Ubuntu. Why do you think Linux is not mainstream yet? Because it is very unstable.

[UbuntuLee]

Unstable??? lolzzz. dude, go type in Linux crash in the youtube search box. 70 results. then type in mac crash, 700 results. then type in windows crash, over 1,000 results. Also it isn't mainstream because its open source and free. duh.

[vahnx1337]

Firefox is open source and free and is mainstream. It is unstable. Just go to Google and type in define:stable

[Eastyles]

Firefox is not fully open source. Do your research.

[WTCHME]

Perfectly valid argument, 100% right.

Wait a second... How many people use a Mac or Windows OS? Tens of millions on each of them.

Now, how many people use Linux? 500,000? Less?

I'm sure the amount of crashes is proportional to the amount of users in the first place.

[UbuntuLee]

I understand it isn't valid, but get your facts strait, there are 30,000,000 Linux users out there, and 95% of those Linux users use the internet. How do I know that they use the internet? Because you need the internet to get Linux unless you somehow discover it and find out that Ubuntu ships Linux without the internet.

[travers114]

You can order a CD from their website can't you?

[travers114]

...I'm an idiot... :P

[UbuntuLee]

Yup

[wilsonacerSC]

it's a flash plugin problem

[tweetyaja]

@wilsonacerSC Not, it caused by outdated Flash Player version

[Dani128]

Why was the above comment from merops voted negatively? It's true, it's the Flash plugin what crashes. It happens in any browser you use: Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, etc.

[kdmq]

he is running fuckin' vista dats y lol

[BlazedForever]

thanks Eyec0n your fix seems to be working for me for the others "Open up '/etc/firefox/firefoxrc' and add "XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1" peace

[arnolddisco]

To anyone wondering how to open /ect/firefox/firefoxrc. Go to applications>terminal and type in:

sudo gedit /etc/firefox/firefoxrc

And press enter. Type your password and follow the above intructions:)

[tezxt1]

I have the same problem, flash just crashes, before it even took down my wifi driver(madiwif) with it, but now on another laptop it just crashes when I watch flash videos at random, it's REALLLLYYYY annoying having to worry about this ALL THE TIME, I tried firefox 3 but it crashed there too, though not as often.

[AuxEnfers1]

Try this workaround: Open one browser window, go to YouTube, start any Flash video, pause it, and move this browser out of the way (minimize, other workspace; whatever). Open another browser window. If you have the same problem as I have, you will now be able to surf YouTube without any freezes. According to some, the actual bug causing my freezes is probably sound related.

[AIMazing]

You utter moron. I don't even believe how amazingly stupid you are. I'm trying to find a fix for this issue, because my entire system freezes when I play flash, and you post this link on a forum. and the solution/whatever is a flash video...

[sepangoxe88]

i have deep freeze home edition

it let never let firefox frezzee

[2Ademar2]

Something like that happened to me, the thing is that I was testing my newly installed gutsy and then there is this problem with flash but it was a little worse that thing made my destop crash all together not only firefox, and the only thing I could do was to turn the machine off, sad but I thin I'll wait for 8.04

[tonojaquez]

Porque nadie ni Canonical ni Firefox han sacado una solucion a este problemota? No les interesa o no pueden?. Es una lastima hace quedar muy mal parado a Ubuntu.

[26282222]

I had a similar problems on a fedora6/firefox-2.0.0.8 heres what worked for me.Fedora6 fully updated as of 7/11/2007

firefox-1.5.0.12/

All plugins installed in /home/USER/.mozilla/plugins

let firefox install the flash plugin dont do a manual.I have the following plugins installed mplayerplug-in-3.35-1.fc6 and jre1.6.0_01

Hope this helps. PS: before wrighting this i surfed youtube for more than 1 hour and no crash.Good luck

[Attila226]

I've personally had the OS freeze up on two different XP machines when using Firefox to view video on YouTube. In both instances I was unable to reboot the machines, possibly due to hard drive corruption.

[Eyec0n]

Problem is mozilla (firefox, galeon, konquorer, etc, etc). Its a simple fix for linux. Open up '/etc/firefox/firefoxrc' and add "XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1" Problem solved. Not sure how to fix for windows.

[Eyec0n]

Oh... If your using Vista you have other options! IE7 if your retarded, and opera. Opera has my vote for best Windows browser.

[Sapwood2]

You can use AOL or Safari too. Safari is slow but stable and AOL is spyware itself.

[Eyec0n]

Angus9000, they dont make IE7 for linux dipshit. This has been a problem ever since version 1.0 was around. Nobody wants to point blame and says its firefox's fault or flash's fault and I haven't seen one damn article ANYWHERE on how to fix it. I think its a problem with Mozilla, because it happens with any browser based on its technology, which is like every web browser for linux.

[Angus9000]

Use IE7

[codename36]

It was working fine, then all of a fuck sudden it starts crashing the past couple days except it wont let me force quit so I gotta use task manager.

[codename36]

FUCK YOU GOOGLE, COME GET ME BITCHIES!

[codename36]

HOW DO YOU FUCKING FIX THEN?

[seamuspcoy]

I have the same problem exactly. I must always use 'Force Quit'. It happens if I don't properly stop the flash video before attempting to leave the web page.

[gerwinin]

I know similar problem here

[cardude911]

this is true