Firefox crashes on yahoo.com

[Manish Jain]

Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:24:03PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
>>> Have you tried Firefox3.5? It's in ports as www/firefox3-devel.
>>>
>>> I just tried Yahoo! and had no problems.
> 
> I tried yahoo with firefox3 on 7.2-RELEASE-p2 amd64 without problems.
> 
>> The problem is not restricted to firefox or yahoo.com. There are other 
>> sites too where this happens. I built Galeon from ports, and it shows 
>> exactly the same behaviour as firefox2/firefox3 for those sites. So does 
>> Epiphany (installed from the distribution media).
>>
>> I doubt whether firefox-3.5 could solve the problem. This seems to be a 
>> problem with a core library in X or one of the graphics libraries.
> 
> Are your ports up-to-date? Use portsnap(8) [first time: 'portsnap fetch
> extract', afterwards 'portsnap fetch update'] to update your ports tree and
> then portmaster(8) ['portmaster -a -B -d'].
> 
> If your ports are up-to-date, try rebuilding libX11 and the ports it
> depends on ['portmaster -f -x libX11'].
> 
> Roland


Hi Roland,

I traced the problem. It's related to flash. When I disable the 
flash plugin, Firefox works smoothly.

I suspect a lot of sites are using a new version of flash, which 
doesn't go down well with the existing browsers.

I run portsnap and portmaster through a daily cron, so the ports 
directory is always up-to-date.

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