lucid amd64: nspluginviewer crash

[James Tappin]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 18:28:48 +0200
Michael Renner <michael.renner at gmx.de> wrote:

MR> Moin,
MR> 
MR> it seems to me, that many web pages use flash content: The KDE Crash
MR> Handler  often reports, the nspluginviewer closed unexprectedly with
MR> signal 11, seg  fault.
MR> Application: nspluginviewer (nspluginviewer), signal: Segmentation
MR> fault [KCrash Handler]
MR> #5  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
MR> #6  0x00007fe322b7895a in nsPluginInstance::getCurrentPageURL()
MR> #const () from 
MR> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
MR> #7  0x00007fe322b79e4a in nsPluginInstance::startProc(unsigned long)
MR> #() from 
MR> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
MR> #8  0x00007fe322b7a8e3 in nsPluginInstance::NewStream(char*,
MR> #_NPStream*, 
MR> unsigned char, unsigned short*) () from
MR> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin- alternative.so
MR> 
MR> Any hint?

Try rekonq! nspluginviewer is very buggy (for me it mostly goes into a
runaway state - 100% CPU when doing nothing). The downside of rekonq is
it can't yet handle some non-html links (e.g. pdf and mpg) unless that
was fixed in the last couple of days before the 0.5 release.

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