I thought of this after I sent the first message, just tried it now on 
http://americavotes.org. 

And it crashed.

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 21:24, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> 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.
> >
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