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Subject: Re: Firefox and Flash ...
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Kiffin Gish wrote:

> I know I am not the first nor more than likely the last, but I cannot 
> for the life of me get Flash to work in Firefox 1.0.6 on FreeBSD 5.4.
>
> I've tried everything according to the FreeBSD handbook, mailing 
> lists, etc, but still when there is a page with Flash, poor Firefox 
> chokes and dies.
>
> One thing interesting I noticed though, which might be a hint, is that 
> if I exit Xfce, logout, login this time as root, fire up Xfce again 
> and then run Firefox, everything works without a hitch, e.g. even 
> flash-based pages don't crash Firefox. Weird.
>
> What gives?
>
I used to run firefox with xfce 4.x about a year ago.  It was hit or 
miss depending on how new and fancy the flash was.  I just got rid of 
the plugin for a more stable experince.

Try to login as a user and run firefox as root, and also login as root 
and run firefox as a normal user.  With all 4 combinations you might get 
a clue as to wheater you should move on to a xfce or mozilla mailling list.