have you tried reinstalling firefox (i.e. apt-get install --reinstall firefox)? jonner On 6/14/06, Mark Mitchell <markmit at mn.rr.com> wrote: > Whenever I attempt to load a page containing any flash component, firefox will > crash. Konqueror will load the page, but without any flash content. > > I attempted installing flashplugin-free|nonfree (1) and had no luck. I've now > removed everything relevant (2), and firefox is still crashing. > > I really don't care if flash works or not, but I do want firefox to keep > running whether or not it has flash installed. > > Relevant system info (3); > > Following Debian testing, all components should be current versions. > > mark at aptiva:~$ firefox http://americavotes.org > The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflects a bug in the program. > The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. > (Details: serial 89 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3) > (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; > that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. > To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line > option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful > backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Mark > > [1] via apt-get > [2] search for macromedia and flash in synaptic, and complete removal of > everything relevant. > [3] I hope, if anything else would be useful, speak up. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >