www/firefox: crashing when intend to play video/streaming

Tue Mar 19 14:54:12 UTC 2013

"O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> writes:

> When trying to play  a video from YouTube or any other type of stream on
> a website providing it, Firefox is "crashing"

ARIFF_OSS option/patch in audio/alsa-plugins is not really maintained
and probably only needed for 7.x which is now EOL. It has a known
issue (see ports/170473) where www/firefox built with ALSA would
crash unless you set media.use_cubeb -> false in about:config.

If you don't use youtube.com/html5 then my guess would be an issue
with IPC e.g., libevent14 is getting in the way again. Try setting
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled -> false.