Mark, What version of Firefox are you using? Most of the releases of Firefox over the past year have flash as part of the browser package built in for Lunux. There is a beta out for Firefox 2.00 called Bon Echo, one feature of this build is a "auto crash recovery". http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/05/13/bon-echo-alpha-3-planned-for-may-26th/ HTH, Jerry W -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Mark Mitchell <markmit at mn.rr.com> > Whenever I attempt to load a page containing any flash component, firefox will > crash. Konqueror will load the page, but without any flash content. > > I attempted installing flashplugin-free|nonfree (1) and had no luck. I've now > removed everything relevant (2), and firefox is still crashing. > > I really don't care if flash works or not, but I do want firefox to keep > running whether or not it has flash installed. > > Relevant system info (3); > > Following Debian testing, all components should be current versions. > > mark at aptiva:~$ firefox http://americavotes.org > The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflects a bug in the program. > The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. > (Details: serial 89 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3) > (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; > that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. > To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line > option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful > backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Mark > > [1] via apt-get > [2] search for macromedia and flash in synaptic, and complete removal of > everything relevant. > [3] I hope, if anything else would be useful, speak up. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list