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

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> 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.
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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.

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