Firefox crashes on yahoo.com

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 07:31:55PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
> 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.

Are you using the linux-flashplugin?

You could try graphics/gnash as a flash plugin. If it crashes it doesn't
take your browser with it. And it is open source. It doesn't work with
all flash sites, but e.g. youtube works.

Roland
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