Comment 28 for bug 114363

Update to previous solution: I would still get crashes once in a blue
moon when something would take over /dev/dsp. Thus, I decided to
recompile alsa(1.0.16) without oss support; have not had a firefox crash
since.

The only drawback is no OSS, which isn't an issue for me.

D.

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 22:29 -0800, DG wrote:
> This, at least for me, is a sound issue; more specifically an alsa vs
> oss issue.
>
> I can replicate the crash with the following steps:
>
> 1) open xmms
> 2) play arbitrary mp3 (using the OSS output driver "libOSS")
> 3) open new instance of firefox
> 4) go to youtube.com and play random video (you should not hear any
> sound from the video as OSS has taken over /dev/dsp)
> 5) while the video is playing, stop xmms (not pause)
> 6) press back on browser
> 7) crash!
>
> I solved this problem by setting *everything* to use alsa. It seems as
> though flash (which, for me, uses alsa) does not play nice with OSS.
>
> D.
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 02:33 +0000, Drew Woodard wrote:
> > @Kevin Titus
> > I don't expect a response to this but I want to say that having "a bunch of separate windows and run various combinations of different Flash videos" may not be the most revealing test.
> >
> > I have always been able to have lots of flash windows open at the same
> > time. The problem I am having, along with many other people, only
> > occurs when the last instance of flash is closed. As I mentioned
> > earlier in this bug report if I have flash loaded somewhere in the
> > background, either in another browser or another tab, I can do anything
> > with flash and it won't crash me. The only time the crash was occurring
> > was when I close or navigate away-from the only thing using flash.
> >