Interesting finds.  Personally, I never open up more than one video at a time, and don't have the courage to test to see if I can make something crash.  Crashes make me freak out, which is why I'm so glad that Mozilla, working with Adobe, was able to quickly  find a fix for the ones I initially reported.

I'm wondering if you've tried enabling/disabling "hardware acceleration" both for Firefox and Flash Player, to see if there's a difference in the amount of RAM consumed. I would assume that enabling hardware acceleration would transfer some of the load to your graphics card, but don't know exactly how it's supposed to work.

I have hardware acceleration disabled for both Firefox and Flash Player, and so far, I've encountered no problems--knock wood.  In fact, disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox finally cured a problem I was having in which drop-down menus that over-hung the Windows Task Bar would leave their image on the Task Bar after they had been closed out!  (Prior to that, the only way to clear it was to click on the "show desktop" button in the far right corner of the Task Bar)

Ortho_Fan

I have hardware acceleration disabled for both Firefox and Flash Player, and so far, I've encountered no problems--knock wood.  In fact, disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox finally cured a problem I was having in which drop-down menus that over-hung the Windows Task Bar would leave their image on the Task Bar after they had been closed out!  (Prior to that, the only way to clear it was to click on the "show desktop" button in the far right corner of the Task Bar)

 

Turning off "Show Shadows Under Menus" in Windows 7 Performance Settings -> Visual Effects solved the drop-down menus and context menus leaving junk on the Window Borders and such. Here's the Firefox bug on that: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610713 That's if you don't want to turn off Hardware Acceleration in Firefox.

Did finally get an actual plug-in crash while running NASCAR RaceView after an hour or more: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/c45a2cb6-80b9-425a-a590-4 da852120624

Mr. Headrick wrote: "Turning off "Show Shadows Under Menus" in Windows 7 Performance Settings -> Visual Effects solved the drop-down menus and context menus leaving junk on the Window Borders and such"

Many thanks!  Another mystery  solved.   I've only had this PC, an HP Omni 220-1125, since April, and at least once or twice a week I'm faced with a "NOW WHAT!!!"   (If I could only get someone to tell me why OSDManager.exe periodically takes up 99 percent of my CPU when I start or re-boot my PC, I'd be in my glory.  Even the OEM doesn't have a clue at this point.)

I saved what you wrote for future reference, should I start to have problems with "hardware acceleration" disabled.  If anything, Firefox seems to work better without it--some sites load faster, etc.-- and Flash Player is working okay, so I'll leave things as they are, for now. 

This makes me wonder if some of the other possible  bazillion combinations of Windows personalization settings is having an impact on the performance of Flash Player.  I'd say it's probably very likely.

Again, thanks.

Ortho_Fan

Hello Chris Campbell,

An Adobe Bug Number for the "focus issue" is 3223393.  Any help with the focus issue would be much appreciated!

Kind regards, Bob Hill

Hi, ok I add votes, but this is not a good behaviour. A bug should be fixed without rating or votes (also no polling day

please what about the crashes

crash: bp-e3b86a68-f646-4136-ba96-77f212120623

crash: bp-8d7717ae-0af2-4486-8a05-ab39f2120623

and

crash: bp-ff2276ae-6c4b-4d75-909d-bae662120624

was helpful the crash reports I sent inthe past days?

thanks.

Added my vote to it. Other issues like crashes and audio problems are more critical but the loss of focus does get annoying sometimes. You know.. why can't I scroll with my mouse wheel? Oh yeah, window doesn't have focus LOL.

Hi,

focus is important, but I think that at this time thereare other (bigger) issues with flash.

Where are you, Chris?

schützenkönig wrote:  "focus is important, but I think that at this time thereare other (bigger) issues with flash."

I have to agree with you there.  Looking at the available information about Firefox 13.0.2, it seems that the main "bug" that release will address is the new tab "thumbnail" feature -- http://www.ghacks.net/2012/06/24/how-to-turn-off-firefoxs-new-tab-page -completely/ -- which could actually cause some security problems.

OF

Chris,

I dont remember about crashes in flash 11.2

Now, with flash 265 and 8 tabs YT > crash.

Question:

I sent the crash report. will it be read?

thanks.

bp-b242dc02-2f6d-4695-b527-7630e2120711

who will read the flash crash report in the folder mozilla?

Hi Chris, good news!!

here the crash reports!!! hope this may help you in analyzing the problem. thanks a lot!!

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/43cc5f27-1bac-4c7a-a23e-f de712120713

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/b242dc02-2f6d-4695-b527-7 630e2120711

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-e3b86a68-f646-4136-ba9 6-77f212120623

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-ff2276ae-6c4b-4d75-909 d-bae662120624

2 of 4 are strongly related to flash player

video url: see above please.

but I think this is not important, because crash did occur with 8-10 videos from here too:

https://www.youtube.com/user/djandreaa/videos

=> crash occurred only if I was moving the pointer (skip forward) or if I switched to other tabs in firefox without YT!! like this for example:

http://technologyforumm.altervista.org/index.php?topic=8.0

(freeze of Firefox > crash of flash).

I guess that if I leave all the videos without performing tasks (i.e watch them only, no skip forward, no change the tabs) I become no crash.

thanks!!

(are the reports correct?).

related bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779830

Now I wrote to Mozilla.

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/2ae07095-6b58-415b-84e9-9 fc732120819

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/8dec3bb3-a84d-4281-b312-c a8c72120819

they say that this report IS usefull.

I guess that it will be useful for you becuase there are no message like "but no other UUID pair found"

I hope that it will be useful for Abode too. thanks

Now I have ff15! so in the future the crash report will be useful.

out of curiosity:

where does flash sanboxed put his flash files?

in flash 11.2 => %temp% folder

flash 11.3 (sandbox) => acro_rd_dir folder

flash 11.4??? the folders above are leer! even with 10 tab YT opened!

where put flash the temporary videos?

thanks.

Hi Jeromie,

why after a lot months, with flash 11.7.700.169 in Firefox I become every day the XUL crash when closing firefox, after long time usage (more than 8 hours, this is important!), if I use flash with sandbox on and acceleration on?

no crash report generated. only the log bottom.

I guess that this issue will never end. and  the issue happens more frequent now. What think you about?

there are other people with issues with flash sandboxed in Firefox or all the bugs has been fixed?

thanks. Regards.

The log:

  Nome evento problema:    APPCRASH

  Nome applicazione:    firefox.exe

  Versione applicazione:    20.0.0.4833

  Timestamp applicazione:    5152542c

  Nome modulo con errori:    xul.dll

  Versione modulo con errori:    20.0.0.4833

  Timestamp modulo con errori:    51525346

  Codice eccezione:    c0000005

  Offset eccezione:    000973d8

  Versione SO:    6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3

  ID impostazioni locali:    1040

  Informazioni aggiuntive 1:    40d4

  Ulteriori informazioni 2:    4062ad41ec8067256aa4c5e2b56d3c79

  Ulteriori informazioni 3:    40d4

  Ulteriori informazioni 4:    4062ad41ec8067256aa4c5e2b56d3c79

Hi.

The silent crash happens only with Firefox! (flash sandbox on). vista32, sp2.

Until flash 11.6: after a very long time usage of FF and YT.

With flash 11.7: EVERY time I close FF after using flash sandboxed, even after an half hour usage. also 11.7 is bad.

steps...

adbplus, noscript

15-17 tabs.

open a youtube video: mover the pointer forwards/afterwards to step one minute video or return back on the beginning.

nothing else.

perhaps a dxdiag.txt?

yes, I dont remember: the problem arised NOT with flash sandbox, but starting from 11.4: flash sandbox "enhaced" for other peoples,

for me the problems arised.

I tell it a silent crash on FF exit (signalized by the OS), in the past it was present only in the folder Minidumps, now Minidumps + OS warning (above).

Yes sandbox OFF resolves the issue.

thanks.

PS: exit FF > task manager: the 2 flash processes disappear: ok. > but firefox.exe still remain (therefore a crash).