Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: firefox
Today a bunch of updates arrived and were installed through update-manager.
Among these, firefox was upgraded from 3.0.19 to 3.6.6. After this upgrade, any
page using flash is not loaded, a banner with "flash plugin crashed" appearing
instead. When loading a page that needs the javaplugin, it does not work either
with a lot of error messages appearing in the java console.
Googling a little, it seems that firefox 3.4 introduced something called "anti
crash plugins" or something like this that deactivates plugins that take a
certain amount of time to be started. This makes that plugins that are somewhat
slow in showing up are not activated at all. If I have understood well, this
amount of time was increased in version 3.6 trying to avoid this behaviour but
apparently it does not work (or perhaps it needs to work a computer faster than
mine).
I had to downgrade back to 3.0.19 to get flash and java working again. (By the
way, downgrading was a painful task: many packets need downgrading including
language packs, and in the upgrade-downgrade movement, the firefox icon has
been lost and firefox has dissappeared from the menus and need to be started
from the console).
>From my point of view, this new feature, instead of avoiding crashes,
>generates a lot of new crashes. At least, an easy way to deactivate this
>unfortunate "anti crash feature" should be provided.
By the way, I am using hardy.
** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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After upgrading to firefox 3.6 java plugin and flash plugin do not work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/600158
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