Comment 3 for bug 247682

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Conn O Griofa (psyke83) wrote : Re: beta flash/ firefox crash

I am currently running Intrepid (also using Flash v10 beta 2) and I can confirm this behaviour, using Firefox 3. Another site that crashes 100% reproducibly: http://polidics.com/

Tested on two computers, a) Dell Inspiron 510m - Pentium M, Intel 855GM; b) Dell Dimension 1100 - Intel Celeron, NVIDIA 5200 PCI.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Visit http://polidics.com

Results:
1. Firefox immediately crashes with a segmentation fault (no debug messages).

Tested the following scenarios:
1. With compiz & without any compositing managers - no difference
2. With & without libflashsupport (see bug #192888) - no difference
3. With & without pulse_pcm configuration (see bug #198453) - no difference
4. With & without "hardware acceleration" enabled within Flash preferences - no difference

The previous version of Flash v10 (beta 1) worked reliably, without crashes on these sites, under two conditions:
1) when using the pulse_pcm ALSA plugins without libflashsupport
2) without pulse_pcm configuration set or libflashsupport (bypasses PulseAudio and only works when PulseAudio server is suspended)

Conclusion:
a) This bug is a regression that occurred between beta 1 and beta 2 of Flash v10.
b) These crashes are *not* related to PulseAudio, so please do not mark as a duplicate of #192888.