Flash crashes/hangs Firefox when switching to fullscreen

Alex — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:08:24 +0000

The best solution/workaround I found is to create an executable script (eg: start_firefox) with the following lines (1, 2):

#!/bin/sh export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libGL.so.1" /home/alexb/apps/firefox/firefox
chmod +x start_firefox ./start_firefox

Another solution is to disable the hardware acceleration in Flash (probably a bad solution):

Now you should be able to go full screen…

Here is the version of the software I was using.

You know Flash is inefficient when ..

Alex — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:55:13 +0000

…DOOM 1, a 15 year old game converted to flash, is jerky on a fairly recent computer.

It’s still worth a try, play now.