Flash player crash in browsers in Ubuntu

Question

I am using Ubuntu 10.10. I tried Firefox 3.6.10 and Chrome 10.0.648.133. In both the browsers, I am able to view flash videos in Youtube and Facebook. But when I switch to full-screen, the flash player plugin crashes.

Is there a way to fix the problem?

Answer 1

It's extremely hard to tell you without having knowledge of your upgrade path, the version of Flash, and/or your video card and drivers. That being said, you may want to check out these links: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=35593

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1593363&page=4

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1678932

I found this on the Ubuntu forum that you can try:

sudo su
mkdir /etc/adobe
echo \"OverrideGPUValidation = 1\" >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

If none of these work for you at all, consider reporting a bug to Adobe: http://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/

You may also want to submit a bug report (if there isn't one already) to the Ubuntu Devs: https://launchpad.net/bugs

Answer 2

I also faced this Flash player crash many times, but I fixed it after reading this post.

This article also helped me:

Following are the important guidelines and solutions to fix a Firefox flash crash:

• Try to uninstall the current flash player version.

• Use official uninstaller tool to remove all flash elements from your computer.

• After completing the above task download flash player 9 instead of the latest version. Sometimes there are intricate browser flash conflicts and changing the versions is often helpful.

• Update your sound drivers if possible since the videos may simply crash on firefox because of the corrupted or missing drivers.

  1. Open Device Manager
  2. Find the sound-card device
  3. Remember the name of the device
  4. Uninstall it. (Read this official guide to uninstall flash plugin)
  5. After doing this restart your system.