Flash in Firefox crashes regularly.

[Jesdisciple]

I keep Pandora.com on all day, but sometimes the music suddenly stops. I switch to the tab and find the embedded Flash movie as a solid gray box. I refresh the page and start a new song, but the one I was listening to is gone for a long time.

I recently stripped my system of all KDE components I could find in attempt to solve this other problem. It didn't help, and I lost my sound. This sticky got it back for me, but now I think I need another package.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[jbrown96]

Where did you get flash (from the repo or from Adobe)? Are you using the open source version or Adobe's? Are you using 64-bit Ubuntu?

[Jesdisciple]

I'm using Adobe's flashplugin-nonfree package - can't remember why I chose it, but I think there was a feature advantage. And I'm on 32-bit.

I should also mention that this usually happens when I'm doing some resource intensive task - not necessarily in Firefox. Opening another page is a common cause, especially if that page also uses Flash.

[gandaran]

which ubuntu version, 8.04 or 8.10?
is firefox updated to version 3.0.4?
do you have flash 9 or flash 10?
do you have libflashsupport installed? if so remove it

[Jesdisciple]

8.10
Yes, Firefox is up-to-date.
Flash 10
I uninstalled flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound and am waiting in disanticipation for a crash.

[Jesdisciple]

Ash, I haven't tried in Opera or Konqueror yet but will do before my next post. No, it's not limited to any particular site; Pandora's just an easy and not-so-repetitive test.

I just managed to crash Pandora by opening Candilion.com; the second site also crashed soon after.

[ashwinhgtx]

Do you experience this problem while using any browsers other than Firefox? Does this happen only for Pandora.com?