Adobe flash plugin has crashed [Solved]

zontar · Last edited by zontar on Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:05 pm; edited 1 time in total

Today I cant play YouTube videos on Firefox. I get the message "Adobe flash plugin has crashed".

I am 32bit so I dont think it can be the nspluginwrapper story.

I downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.45.2 but no difference. I uninstalled www-plugins/adobe-flash, no change. I reinstalled www-client/mozilla-firefox. No help.

I do not see adobe-flash in firefox preferences. I'd be happy to use something else, mplayer maybe?

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

dylix · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:12 pm Post subject:

you using 3.6.6? they updated from 3.6.4 & 3.6.5 cus of similar issues... just a thought
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zontar · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:29 am Post subject:

Thanks for the suggestion. I now have firefox 3.6.6 but still no flash. My guess is that some simlink has gotten misdirected.

kmillar

I Had the same problem. I closed down firefox and renamed the plugin directory and restarted firefox and all worked.

zontar · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:05 pm Post subject:

That did it. Thanks!

For the record, I did

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

...loosing history, bookmarks, etc. in the process.
If it was a matter of rescanning plugins, there was a simpler way,
if the extensions were the problem, uninstalling (perhaps even just disabling) them should have fixed it.

zontar · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:16 pm Post subject:

I did try disabling the extensions. No help. (I tried a bunch of obvious stuff before turning to the community.)

I do still have my bookmarks, history, etc. I just changed the name of the plugins directory. If anything nasty turns up in the next few days, I'll update this post.

The only thing in .mozilla/plugins was a copy of libflashplayer.so. Since I changed the directory name, I now am using the up-to-date version in /opt/netscape/plugins/.

I'd still like to understand why this suddenly became a problem after more than 5 years of happy firefox-ing.

McGruff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 148

$ mv ~/.mozilla/plugins ~/.mozilla/plugins_old

This worked for me too

For a while I've been able to watch youtube videos OK but not videos on some other sites eg BBC Iplayer (I had to launch WinXP in VirtualBox...). Now everything's working OK. Thanks for the tip.

carlosalvatore · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Posts: 13

The Flash plugin will work again only by removing "libflashplayer.so" from ~/.mozilla/plugins and/or /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins

Regards.
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