Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

[Benjamin Dover]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:20:50 -0800, Loren M. Lang <lorenl at alzatex.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Ben Dover wrote:
> > Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with
> > a Flash object Firefox core dumps.  The error is as follows:  Feb 13
> > 18:57:53 w00f kernel: pid 27652 (firefox-bin), uid 0: exited on signal
> > 6 (core dumped).  I have installed the following relevant ports:
> > /usr/ports/www/firefox
> > /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-firefox
> 
> Do you have flash 6 or 7 installed.  I never have 6 crash, but 7 is
> horrible.

cd /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-firefox/
w00f# cat distinfo
MD5 (gplflash-0.4.12.tar.bz2) = 7d53803486b255665a80cd834ee3c463
SIZE (gplflash-0.4.12.tar.bz2) = 378727
w00f# cat pkg-descr
This is GPL standalone Flash (TM) Plugin, that comes with FlashLib
(libflash) distribution.

Author: Olivier Debon <olivier at debon.net>
WWW:    http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/


> 
> >
> > I'm confused if I should install the linux-firefox port or the other
> > flash port.  What is the combination everyone has been having good
> > luck with?
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