Bug 631122

Summary: firefox freezing when right-clicking on a flash video
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Forgotten User -yQj4fdAjs <forgotten_-yQj4fdAjs>
Component: GNOMEAssignee: E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: francesco.cosoleto, jeanbarloy, reldude84, sbrabec, setha, wolfgang
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.3   
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Description Forgotten User -yQj4fdAjs 2010-08-13 16:07:43 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100723 SUSE/3.6.8-1.3 Firefox/3.6.8

when right-clicking on a flash video, firefox freezes.
this happens not always, but in about 80%


when started via terminal following message is repeated all the time:

*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** WARNING:(/usr/src/packages/BUILD/nspluginwrapper-1.3.0/src/npw-viewer.c:1291):invoke_NPN_InvalidateRect: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(g_rpc_connection))

2.6.34-12-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-06-29 02:39:08 +0200 x86_64 GNU/Linux


i | ca-certificates-mozilla                       | Paket   | 1.62-2.3                         | noarch | 
i | flash-player                                  | Paket   | 10.1.82.76-19.1                  | i586   |
i | flash-player                                  | Patch   | 2895                             | noarch | 
i | flash-player                                  | Patch   | 2713                             | noarch |
i | mozilla-js192                                 | Paket   | 1.9.2.8-3.1                      | x86_64 | 
i | mozilla-kde4-integration                      | Paket   | 0.6.2-14.1                       | x86_64 |
i | mozilla-nspr                                  | Paket   | 4.8.6-1.1                        | x86_64 |
i | mozilla-nspr-32bit                            | Paket   | 4.8.6-1.1                        | x86_64 | 
i | mozilla-nss                                   | Paket   | 3.12.8-2.1                       | x86_64 |
i | mozilla-nss-32bit                             | Paket   | 3.12.8-2.1                       | x86_64 | 
i | mozilla-nss-certs                             | Paket   | 3.12.8-2.1                       | x86_64 |
i | mozilla-nss-certs-32bit                       | Paket   | 3.12.8-2.1                       | x86_64 |
i | mozilla-xulrunner192                          | Paket   | 1.9.2.8-3.1                      | x86_64 | 
i | mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome                    | Paket   | 1.9.2.8-3.1                      | x86_64 | 
i | mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-common      | Paket   | 1.9.2.8-3.1                      | x86_64 |
i | pullin-flash-player                           | Paket   | 11.3.1-2.1.1                     | x86_64 | 
i | pullin-flash-player                           | Patch   | 2715                             | noarch | 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.right click on flash videos / applications in firefox
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
firefox freezes

Expected Results:  
usually a right-click menu should appear
Comment 1 Forgotten User -yQj4fdAjs 2010-08-13 16:10:53 UTC
Sorry:

MozillaFirefox-translations-common-3.6.8-1.3.x86_64
MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-4.0-1.1.x86_64
MozillaFirefox-theme-oxygen-1.4.92-6.1.noarch
MozillaFirefox-3.6.8-1.3.x86_64
Comment 2 Jean BARLOY 2010-08-25 14:12:42 UTC
I've encountered the exact same problem !
Comment 3 Ariel Nemtzov 2010-08-29 07:35:14 UTC
I have the same problem too!
Comment 4 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2010-08-29 07:55:55 UTC
I can reproduce this most of the time.
Looks pretty much nspluginwrapper related. It's in general very unstable on 11.3 for me. But I fear we cannot do much about it.
Adobe stopped publishing their x86-64 Flash plugin for now unfortunately.
Comment 5 Seth Alford 2010-09-16 09:01:55 UTC
I googled for the NSPlugin error string.  Google showed me a bug for this in RedHat's bugzilla, which is not surprising since I run Fedora Core 12, in 32 bit mode.  And google showed me an email on the openSuse bug email list, which led me to your bugzilla.  Your bug looks very much like the RedHat bug.  See

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=622416
Comment 6 Seth Alford 2010-09-16 09:11:15 UTC
And while I'm at it, the same error message appears on a Mandriva email list at

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=115338

I'm not sure if it's exactly the same because that email thread is in French and far exceeds the French vocabulary that remember from school many years ago.
Comment 7 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2010-09-16 09:15:33 UTC
and because I just tried. Adobe released a new Flash preview for x86-64:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

I'm running with that now and even if it is a preview it looks much more stable than the nspluginwrapper way.
Comment 8 Francesco Cosoleto 2010-09-16 15:29:10 UTC
Reproduced and solved using the latest Adobe Flash player beta release (10.2.161.0), as well it fixes more stability problems on 64 bit systems such as frequent playback interruption while browsing on different tabs with flash contents.
Comment 9 Forgotten User -yQj4fdAjs 2010-10-02 16:04:33 UTC
well that update is not "officially" availabe.
repos only have 10.1 in connection with nspluginwrapper.

nevertheless i can confirm all is fine with flash 10.2
Comment 10 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2010-10-02 18:08:01 UTC
IMHO this is WONTFIX. Likely nobody @openSUSE is able to fix it as nspluginwrapper has major issues and a non-official workaround is available.
@sbrabec, other opinion?
Comment 11 Francesco Cosoleto 2010-10-02 22:59:13 UTC
If it isn't fixable, any way to advise users the workaround? It's really a critical bug, causing a lot of problems while browsing. Next openSUSE release is far.
Comment 12 Forgotten User -yQj4fdAjs 2010-10-03 11:43:10 UTC
in the OBS there are some 64bit flash plugins (for the beta release).
it's simply copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/

I did one myself:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=flash-player&project=home%3AlOtz1009
Comment 13 Forgotten User -yQj4fdAjs 2010-10-18 06:50:38 UTC
Closed as WONTFIX.
An official 64Bit update of flash player seems to take some time from now.
With the preview of flash player 10.2 it's working, easily installable via OBS.