Flash/firefox interaction crash ESR 10.0.10 RHEL 5 x86_64

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • firefox-10.0.10-1.el5_8 (both 32 and 64)
  • xulrunner-10.0.10-1.el5_8 (both 32 and 64)
  • flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-1.el5
  • java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.28.1.10.10.el5_8

Issue

  • Firefox/xulrunner on RHEL 5 64-bit in combination of the software listed in Environment is broken.
    • Any web page with Java/Flash crashes Firefox, often immediately.

Resolution

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-1429.html

Root Cause

The "out-of-process plug-ins" feature was previously disabled for wrapped plug-ins by default. This could cause Firefox to terminate unexpectedly when accessing a page that contained a flash object and the flash plug-in and the nswrapperplugin plug-in viewer were installed. To resolve this problem, the "out-of-process plug-ins" feature has been enabled for the wrapped plug-ins. Firefox no longer crashes in this scenario.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871568

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