CentOS - Sep 2009 - Problems with Adobe flash-plugin and Firefox-3.5.x under CentOs-5.3 (yum up to date)

Hi,
 
I am running 32-bit Firefox-3.5.3 on Centos-5.3 (64-bit kernel) on a Dell
Precision M65 laptop. This is likely a Adobe problem, but maybe someone else has
seen this before. Please CC me, as I only receive the digest version of the
list.

 
When using the 10.0.32.18-release version of the flash-plugin, trying
to access *any* page containing flash (e.g. www.adobe.com) causes the
browser to die. This also happens with version 10.0.22.87. Version
9.0.115.0 works fine. To avoid problems with add-ons, Firefox is
started with "-safe-mode". As far as I know, the problem also happens
with Firefox-3.0.x.
 
# uname -a
Linux l6g0223j 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 08:21:56 EDT 2009 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# rpm -q flash-plugin
flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release
 
 
Any idea? Anything I can help debugging the problem?
 
Cheers
Martin
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Martin Knoblauch
email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de
www:   http://www.knobisoft.de

> Hi,
>
> I am running 32-bit Firefox-3.5.3 on Centos-5.3 (64-bit kernel) on a Dell
> Precision M65 laptop. This is likely a Adobe problem, but maybe someone
> else has seen this before. Please CC me, as I only receive the digest
> version of the list.
>
>
> When using the 10.0.32.18-release version of the flash-plugin, trying
> to access *any* page containing flash (e.g. www.adobe.com) causes the
> browser to die. This also happens with version 10.0.22.87. Version
> 9.0.115.0 works fine. To avoid problems with add-ons, Firefox is
> started with "-safe-mode". As far as I know, the problem also
happens
> with Firefox-3.0.x.
<snip>
I filed a bug with the firefox team about exactly that. I'm running 64 bit
CentOS 5.3, with updates, and it happens with both firefox 3.5.3 and
3.0.14.

Fortunately, I install in such a way as to not wipe out the existing,
running version... so I'm running 3.0.12 until I see a fix.

        mark