Patch for crashing firefox with flash-plugin

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Sun Sep 3 23:10:06 UTC 2006


Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> Matus Hrusovsky wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> if possible modify please /usr/bin/firefox in next RPM relese of
>>> firefox. Without it firefox-1.5.0.6-9 still crashes with flash-plugin.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, that will make Macromedia _rush_ to fix flash player to
>> work properly in the future.
>>
> 
> 
> While Macrodobe may not care about Fedora users, I certainly do.  I'm 
> not really sure why this is needed because I've been using flash without 
> this environment variable for a while, but ajax and halfline say this 
> fixes it for them and I thought I already committed this, but it must 
> have been reverted by accident when I tried merging behdad's pango stuff.
> 
> I'll add it in the next round of builds...

Although this still won't fix things for other browsers.  A better 
solution is required (which might simply be Macrodobe should fix their 
plugin).

Anyway, this temporary hack will be in 1.5.0.6-10 along with my changes 
to (re-)enable GCC visibility assuming that build succeeds....




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