Gentoo 1.4r1, Mozilla, Flash

SQLBoy · Guru Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 381

Basically, the problem is that Mozilla + any Mozilla based browsers crash when loading a flash page. netscape-flash is installed. Konqueror works fine. Anyone else experience this or know of a fix?

slak · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 31

perhaps it happens cause /dev/dsp is busy; got the same problem; crappy sound card drivers..

unfortunately it worksss under kde; arts seams to be able to deal with different sound output/input at the same time; cheers

nmr_spectrometer · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 55

my experiences here.

Basically I had your problem with mozilla crashing whenever I loaded a page with java applets; I tried recompling sun's java from go (a long, arduous process), and then mozilla wouldn't even recognize plugins anyway. Then I tried recompiling mozilla without gtk2 support (i.e. export USE=-gtk2; emerge mozilla). Then it recognized all loaded plugins. No crashes.

Of course it sounds like you're using KDE so you might not even have any gtk support compiled in... can't help ya there.

SQLBoy · Guru Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 381

Well, you made the right turn then. I emerged Mozilla 1.1 and Galeon CVS and it screwed me up even more. Galeon-cvs is unstable to say the least. I'm stuck with Konqueror which wouldn't be that bad if it wasn't for no tabbed browsing. Once you go tabbed you never go back. I tried opera but 1/2 the sites I goto don't render correctly.

I'm going to try what you did.

eivinn · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

USE=-gtk2

did not help me. Mozilla exits/crashes just as fast as the page is loaded if there is any flash file to load. Not any good sign?

Larde · Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2002 12:33 pm Post subject:

I could get flash running using the suggestion made in this thread. Create the libc++mem.c as told and of course use /usr/lib/mozilla instead of /opt/mozilla in that thread.
I didn't get realplay plugin running with this method though, but hey, flash is more important. :-)

Hth,
Larde.
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tc · n00b Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 59

AFAIK the libc++ stuff is already applied in the latest ebuild, but it didnt work here either. The only way that finally worked was to unpack the .tar.gz binary version (that one without setup) to (for example) /opt/mozilla and to make a script /usr/bin/mozilla like this:

toastie · n00b Joined: 13 Nov 2002 Posts: 18

try getting flash6 from the macromedia site, i had the same problem as you with flash5, but as soon as i got flash6 it was fine. also run mozilla from console and see if there are any error messages (no ebuilds for it, so it took me awfile to realize that it was missing some dependancy for flash6)
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