Centos 6.x Firefox24 update

[Barry Cisna]

Hello All,

Just wanted to share my experience in updating the server portion to 6.5
(CentOS-32bit). I spent about two days (in spare time) trying to get
flash-plugin working.

After installing every flash-plugin rpm i could come across,including
Adobes official rpm,and experiencing "flash player has crashed","you
need to download flash-player to run this", to "plugin-container
crashing".

I wound up downloading and manually installing Adobe's 11.2-x tar.gz and
flash-plugin /player is working fine.

I'm not sure if this is due to Firefox 24.x,xulrunner-24.x or what?

Don't know if anyone else run into this?

Take Care,
Barry

[Barry R Cisna]

Hello All,

Replying to my own thread,sorry.
I spoke too soon.

Here's an odd one. If I NX into the server as any user Youtubes,
flash-plugin runs fine. If i log in as same user on a tc to the server I
get "flashplayer has crashed". if I look in the syslog,it does contain a
line about "plugin-container crashed".

I do not have any other extensions installed on Firefox,just for
completeness.


Anyone experienced this?

Never had a bit of trouble with Firefox,,in many years of ltsp use. I am
very hesitant about upgrading unless something is added to the mix,,and
I have no choice but to do an yum update. Naturally I got bit this time.

Could it be such a mismatch somehow between the client kernel and the
server kernel?
Chrome does work fine on this updated setup as well,, just to mention.

Thanks,
Barry

[Jim Kinney]

Are you running firefox in local app mode on the TC? If so, you'll need to
update some other stuff on the client as Firefox requires additional
packages (mozilla-filesystem is used by plugins)

Post by Barry Cisna
Hello All,
Replying to my own thread,sorry.
I spoke too soon.
Here's an odd one. If I NX into the server as any user Youtubes,
flash-plugin runs fine. If i log in as same user on a tc to the server I
get "flashplayer has crashed". if I look in the syslog,it does contain a
line about "plugin-container crashed".
I do not have any other extensions installed on Firefox,just for
completeness.
Anyone experienced this?
Never had a bit of trouble with Firefox,,in many years of ltsp use. I am
very hesitant about upgrading unless something is added to the mix,,and
I have no choice but to do an yum update. Naturally I got bit this time.
Could it be such a mismatch somehow between the client kernel and the
server kernel?
Chrome does work fine on this updated setup as well,, just to mention.
Thanks,
Barry
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[Barry R Cisna]

Jim'

Not running FF-24 in local app mode.
I can run the client version of firefox fine.
I honestly don't see any new fangled stuff on FF-24 versus even FF-10. i
am sure there are many items under the hood,though.

I figured trying to upgrade the client root to run FF-24 would
completely trash the chroot so I didn't even go there.
If I was playing on a sandbox machine I may give it a try. Don't really
have time to be doing that at present.

Thanks,
Barry