[Mageia-dev] Crashes with Firefox 13 + Flash (inc. fix)

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2012/6/9 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>:
> Hi,
>
> Just in case others are experiencing this, I've noticed recently that
> since Cauldron went to Firefox 13 I've seen frequent crashes, most often
> when interacting with Flash.
>
> After getting annoyed enough about it today, I did some digging, got a
> (rubbish but mildly usable) backtrace and managed to do some educated
> Googling.
>
> I ended up finding this:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759123
>
> The suggested solution of installing lib64proxy-webkit and removing
> lib64proxy-mozjs did the trick. Firefox has been much more stable.
>
> Just thought I'd share this with others should they also be suffering
> the same problem.
>
> Depending on how widespread the problem is, we should maybe consider
> adding conflicts to firefox package on lib*proxy-mozjs.
>
> All the best
>
> Col
>
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Thanks :)