Fullscreen flash in firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 crashes when trying to view a flash video in fullscreen.
Not to worry, for there is a workaround.

in /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.1pre/firefox.sh

EDIT: the path on Fedora 11 is: /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/run-mozilla.sh
you add export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 at the beginning of the file, but underneath #!/bin/sh

So it looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
#fix the goddamn flash bug.
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

# Firefox launcher containing a Profile migration helper for
# temporary profiles used during alpha and beta phases.

…

Save, and try out some flash video in fullscreen.

This should work for Archlinux, Fedora and Ubuntu. The path to firefox.sh might vary though.

Workaround taken from https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/333127/comments/13

Fedora 11

This is a short howto get the Nvidia drivers and multimedia stuff installed on your new Fedora 11.
I assume you have a newly installed system before following this. The first thing you want to do before you run

`yum update`

is to install yum-presto:

`yum install yum-presto`,

and save some time and bandwidth. Next up is to install dkms and the devel package for your running kernel,type in

`uname -r`

in your terminal, and if there is no PAE in there install kernel-devel:

`yum install kernel-devel`

Otherwise install kernel-PAE-devel:

`yum install kernel-PAE-devel`

Then run  yum update, and when that’s done, reboot.

Nvidia drivers, for this we need to enable the RPMfusion repositories:

`rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm`.

Then install the driver, I use the akmod-nvidia package which builds the required module on reboot:

`yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64`,

then reboot.

When you get back you can go to http://www.adobe.com and download the yum flash-plugin for fedora, or click here and install:

`http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/thankyou/?installer=Flash_Player_10_for_Linux_(YUM)`

The multimedia stuff is next:

`yum install flash-plugin  gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-freeworld gecko-mediaplayer`

That’s that, you should now be able to enjoy all of the webs offerings!

Credit where credit is due: Leigh on fedoraforums for an excellent Nvidia howto: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

testdriving OpenSolaris 2008.11

Just got opensolaris set up on my desktop system, flash, drivers and all. still searching for daap support so I can listen to my music. Seems like a pretty solid system now, even tough it has it’s share of weirdnesses. I’ll completement this post later with an howto for installing drivers for the Audigy2 Zs soundcard and the Nvidia nforce ehternet driver.

edit: no I won’t, I got umm… drunk and distracted by the newly released Sabayon 4….

P.S opensolaris isn’t as solid as one might think, flash causes firefox to crash more often then it doesn’t, but when it works it worls great: full screen flash is not choppy as it is in linux land. And I didn’t get multimedia to work @ all. Another OS that needs some more time to mature.