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Date:      Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:14:45 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>
Cc:        frank@shute.org.uk, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Firefox crashes on yahoo.com
Message-ID:  <20090628141445.GA59572@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4A4777D3.5030301@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 07:31:55PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
> I traced the problem. It's related to flash. When I disable the=20
> flash plugin, Firefox works smoothly.
>
> I suspect a lot of sites are using a new version of flash, which=20
> doesn't go down well with the existing browsers.

Are you using the linux-flashplugin?

You could try graphics/gnash as a flash plugin. If it crashes it doesn't
take your browser with it. And it is open source. It doesn't work with
all flash sites, but e.g. youtube works.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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