[OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox 31.2.0esr broken?

[Kees Nuyt]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:07:33 +0200, you wrote:

>On 15/10/2014 15:52, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>>> I'm inclined to suspect that you have an LD_LIBRARY_PATH defined
>>> somewhere which redirects firefox to use wrong library versions ?
>>>
>> I'm inclined to suspect that firefox is totally broken since I am still using OpenSolaris on
>> a machine and there the pluggin worked with no problem but now it crashes all the time. So
>> I am pretty sure they have done something extremely stupid this time.
>>
>
>You know that you HAVE TO go to this page to enable flash  ?
>
>  > Flash could be used if first you go to:
>  > http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/   and then flash would
>  > temporarily work in a browser.
>
> Something unkown is indeed broken between a7 and a9, ask
> Martin Boching, he pretends to know the reason, but never
> will tell us, maybe he helps you out. I do not believe that
> there is a real error, as Martin wrote in another blog, he
> now does not count that as an error, but a binary incompatiblity.
> I can't say anything about that as I don't really know the nature
> of the problem, despite of a couple of days of hard work trying
> to find it.
> But with the workaround and the "pin" trick, it's not a real
> problem anymore.


For what it is worth, sometimes you can avoid flash and use
html5 instead:  https://www.youtube.com/html5 

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Regards,

Kees Nuyt