Comments on: Firefox crashes in Ubuntu on flash content

By: Kaeli

Kaeli — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:04:16 +0000

Okay I would like to try this but I am not educated in the language of computers... what does it mean to log in as root and how do I do that?

By: Jesus

Jesus — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:04:56 +0000

I seem to be having this same problem in Gutsy Gibbon, 7.10

It doesn't immediately crash, but when pages have flash content, it becomes unstable. It is either slow and unresponsive or it just disappears in a magical way... Should I try one of these solutions? I probably have the mentioned library installed. Tried the second solution but the xorg file was not there...

By: Rogerio

Rogerio — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:31:34 +0000

Jim, if the user is running Ubuntu in a Virtual Server 2005 RC2, DefaultDepth 16 is mandatory. So, users in Virtual Server 2005 R2 can not use Flash plugin on Firefox.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:13:12 +0000

Thanks for that Jim, worked a treat.

:-)

By: Tim McCormack

Tim McCormack — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:14:56 +0000

Well, Jim, this looks promising. I assume that the problem is that the flash plugin from Macromedia assumes it is working with 24-bit depth when this is not always the case, causing a crash?

I checked my own xorg.conf, and it already had the 24-bit depth -- I had not modified this. Perhaps there are two problems here: bit depth assumptions with the Macromedia-supplied plugin, and multiple plugins attempting to handle Flash.

By: Jim Caya

Jim Caya — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:43:32 +0000

This is a response the the flash plugin error that is so often found when running Firefox on Ubuntu. Far to common the situation is that the user is prompted to download the Macromedia flash plugin from a site which then causes the browser to crash anytime a site with flash plugins is visited. Then the user downloads all possible Flash plugins from the Add/Remove or Synaptic Package Manager which does not solve the problem. If this is you, help is here. The real problem is that your system is not setup to run the flash 7 plugin from Macromedia because of they way Macromedia wrote it (and the update will not be available for some time yet). Thankfully it is easy to work around this error by performing the steps below: 1) Log in as "root" 2) Get to your file system (usually can be found by going to "Places" on the task bar) 2) Open the "etc" folder 3) Scroll down to the "X11" folder and open it 4) Find and open the "xorg.conf" file - NOT FOLDER 5) Scroll down until you see: but your "device" i.e. graphics card will be different Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x]" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 16 6) Change the default depth to 24: Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x]" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 PROBLEM SOLVED - LOG OFF AND ENJOY FLASH ON FIREFOX