Far from over, my Fedora Core 9 woes continue. This time its on a Celeron 1.7 GHz cpu. And its the brand new Firefox and Adobe Flash releases giving me the headache.
FC9 yum now distributes 3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.
Adobe, since my last writeup, has started shipping Version 10 of its Flash Player.
The issue is this: When I accessed any flash content, and then moved away to any non-flash content page, and by chance moved my mouse, Firefox crashed with a SEGV - segmentation fault with some weird error in run-mozilla.sh which contained something like $prog{$1+"$@"}. I spent almost 6-7 days trying to figure out who's problem it was - Firefox's, Flash's or the site's. I came upon people mentioning problems of locale (which I had started believing looking at some random messages in my strace log of firefox), xlib, fontconfig, and even setting RAM speed to match the CPU speed! Well, finally, I read up that the nspluginwrapper was needed in some older version of firefox, for the Flash plugin not to crash, and had been apparently solved in the latest version. Yeah right.
Looks like nspluginwrapper IS the culprit. Once I installed the package, things seem to be working. For now.
Damn you Mozilla guys.
One more interesting thing I have observed is why yum lists firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9 as stable? Is beta stuff stable nowadays? I might have missed something in the software engineering trend, but AFAIK, beta is NOT for general use. Hmm...
