the blog of david dean » fix http://www.davidbdean.com currently not blogging much at all Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:30:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Adobe Flash Crashing Mozilla Firefox in Linux http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/12/01/adobe-flash-crashing-mozilla-firefox-in-linux/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/12/01/adobe-flash-crashing-mozilla-firefox-in-linux/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:51:09 +0000 David Dean http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/12/01/adobe-flash-crashing-mozilla-firefox-in-linux/ If you are having trouble with Flash crashing Firefox under Linux (Ubuntu in my case), you may want to try deleting (or rename) the $HOME/.macromedia folder. It worked for me.

The crashing in question wasn’t happening most of the time, but it was preventing my from using the Potlatch editor for openstreetmap.org.

A little detail on how I come to find this out:

  1. I renamed my $HOME/.mozilla folder to remove all local firefox preferences. Didn’t work.
  2. I created a new user and tried to use Potlatch. Worked!
  3. Be confused because deleting the $HOME/.mozilla folder should be the same as creating a new user.
  4. Hey, what about Flash – maybe it has some local user preferences. Yep, $HOME/.macromedia. Renamed that. Worked!

It may also be a good idea to ensure that your flash plugin is installed through the ubuntu repositories rather than Adobe’s site to ensure it all works swimmingly with Ubuntu. Just run

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

So if you are having similar Flash problems in Linux, give that (and the renaming/deletion of $HOME/.macromedia) a go.

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