Firefox headaches

[RW]

On Saturday 18 December 2004 20:53, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Something's not right with firefox.
>
> Now that I've got the printing problems more or less solved, it
> crashes almost every time I hit a page with flash.
>
> I've got the latest (from ports updated yesterday) native, and
> flashplugin-firefox port.  Certain websites crash or lock it up at
> seemingly random points.
>
> By crash, I mean I get a firefox-bin.core file in my home directory.
> By lock up, I mean it simply stops responding - indefinitely.  Once I
> just quit for the night and next morning all I had was the window
> outline.
>
> Case in point: http://www.big-boys.com/  This one ALWAYS takes it out.
>
> Sometimes when loading the main page, sometimes when clicking out to
> another bookmark (different domain altogether) and pretty much anytime
> an onsite link is clicked.
>
> I have rebuilt and reinstalled the flash plugin since portupgrading
> firefox.  I also deinstalled and reinstalled both additions - Noia
> theme and TabBrowser extension - latest of both.
>

Firstly, are you using the old method of using flashpluginwrapper or the newer 
linuxpluginwrapper.

Secondly, are you using flash7, which isn't yet supported on Firefox.

I'm using the default Flash 6  and linuxpluginwrapper, and have seen no 
problems with mozilla or firefox.