From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 08:36:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C8416A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:36:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7160E43D2D for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:36:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [IPv6???1] (localhost.daemonsecurity.com [127.0.0.1]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E802FD01F; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:36:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4210630E.2020408@locolomo.org> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:36:30 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050127 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Dover References: <5ae9cd55050213174867bd0271@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5ae9cd55050213174867bd0271@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:36:36 -0000 Ben Dover wrote: > Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with > a Flash object Firefox core dumps. The error is as follows: Feb 13 > 18:57:53 w00f kernel: pid 27652 (firefox-bin), uid 0: exited on signal > 6 (core dumped). I have installed the following relevant ports: > /usr/ports/www/firefox > /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-firefox > > I'm confused if I should install the linux-firefox port or the other > flash port. What is the combination everyone has been having good > luck with? I haven't had any luck with flash - it doesn't _always_ crash but too often, so I have simply deinstalled flash. I haven't ever seen a usefull and informative page which had these qualities solely because of flash. To get rid of those anoying requests to install flash, remove the following file: libnullplugin.so (I use mozilla, I guess it's the same for firefox). Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2