Web pages with Flash now hang Firefox

[Fulko Hew]

A few days ago any time I try to view a web page that contains some Flash,
Firefox (56.0) hangs for about a minute, then does something, and hangs
again for a minute, etc.  Until I kill the tab for that web page.

Chrome works fine.  Firefox used to work too, but now it doesn't.

Has anyone seen this?

PS. I had originally followed the instructions here to install Flash:

https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-adobe-flash-player-10-on...

TIA
Fulko

[Jack Craig]

have you tried debug with firefoxdeveloperedition?

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Fulko Hew  wrote:
> A few days ago any time I try to view a web page that contains some Flash,
> Firefox (56.0) hangs for about a minute, then does something, and hangs
> again for a minute, etc.  Until I kill the tab for that web page.
>
> Chrome works fine.  Firefox used to work too, but now it doesn't.
>
> Has anyone seen this?
>
> PS. I had originally followed the instructions here to install Flash:
>
> https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-adobe-
> flash-player-10-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/
>
> TIA
> Fulko
>
> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]

[Fulko Hew]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Jack Craig 
wrote:
> have you tried debug with firefoxdeveloperedition?

I don't think I can because NSAPI is no longer supported in Firefox 58
and hence Flash isn't either.  Is there an older version of the developer
edition downloadable somewhere?

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> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Fulko Hew  wrote:
> > A few days ago any time I try to view a web page that contains some Flash,
> > Firefox (56.0) hangs for about a minute, then does something, and hangs
> > again for a minute, etc.  Until I kill the tab for that web page.
> >
> > Chrome works fine.  Firefox used to work too, but now it doesn't.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this?
> >
> > PS. I had originally followed the instructions here to install Flash:
> >
> > https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-adobe-fl
> > ash-player-10-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/
> >
> > TIA
> > Fulko
> >
> > users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
>
> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]

[Fulko Hew]

​A follow-up to my original post.

I think the problem may have been related to all the Fedora updates
that have been installed since the last time I logged in.

When I logged out and logged back in I found that I was now
updated to using Firefox 57.0 (rather than the 56.0 I reported about.)
And Flash is now working.

So, I suspect there was some sort of mismatch somewhere in something
the already running Firefox dynamically loaded that caused the problem.

So the problem is now gone.
Thanks for your time, and sorry for the interruption.

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