Adobe flash

[chris]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:45:50 -0700
Barry Premeaux <bpremeaux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:15 AM, chris <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Using Ubuntu 10.4 32bit, on a pent 3, one gig ram.  Everything
> > running well except with fire fox v 3.6.7, adobe flash is
> > crashing Have googled extensively, and found many references to
> > 64 bit, but not 32.
> > Any ideas suggestions thoughts greatly appreciated
> >
> > Cheers the kiwi
> >
> 
> I am running 9.10 on my desktop and 10.4 on my older laptop.
> After recent updates for firefox 3.6.7, I started having issues
> with some sites causing firefox to crash.  I fired up the laptop
> and went through the same updates and had no issues.  I tried
> several possible fixes for the desktop and nothing worked.  I
> finally saved my bookmarks, renamed .mozilla and did a reinstall
> on the latest version of firefox.  Everything started working
> again.  I am assuming that there was something in the cache (even
> after clearing it) or the configuration was corrupted during the
> update.  You might consider the same thing with firefox/Adobe
> Flash Media player.  If his problem occurred after the firefox
> update, he may be dealing with corrupted config files.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Barry
> 

Certainly worth a try.
As a temporary fix I installed Epiphany just to keep him going.
Haven't heard back yet as to what is the result
Cheers Chris