Patch for crashing firefox with flash-plugin

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Sun Sep 3 17:55:26 UTC 2006


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.
>>
>> --- /usr/bin/firefox.orig       2006-08-30 10:18:10.000000000 +0200
>>
>> +++ /usr/bin/firefox    2006-09-02 18:52:13.000000000 +0200
>>
>> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
>>
>>  then
>>
>>    MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64"
>>
>>  fi
>>
>> +export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
>>
>>  MOZ_DIST_BIN="$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-1.5.0.6"
>>
>>  MOZ_PROGRAM="$MOZ_DIST_BIN/firefox"
>>
>>  MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM="$MOZ_DIST_BIN/mozilla-xremote-client"
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Yeah, that will make Macromedia _rush_ to fix flash player to
> work properly in the future.

Do you honestly believe this will have any sort of impact over 
Macromedia's flash 9 linux project (http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/) 
? On the contrary, they would divert resources to fix the old flash 7 
player and that would delay the flash 9 release even more...




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