Comment 6 for bug 114363

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Drew Woodard (drew-woodard) wrote : Re: snd-hda-intel with flashplugin-nonfree causes browser crash on close

some additional information:

In the bug report I linked in the description we have had six people experiencing the problem report what audio chipset they are using, it appears that all six people have chipsets that use snd-hda-intel

Two people have reported trying pre-2.6.20 kernels and in both cases the old kernel did not have this freezing problem

in the following forum post (and I have verified this on my own system as well) the potential crash seems to only occur when closing or navigating away from the last thing on the system that has flash loaded. So for example if you open a browser window (in my cause konqueror), load a site with flash, then put that konqueror window in the background somewhere you can now use firefox normally with flash content and it won't freeze. Someone else reported doing the same thing with two copies of firefox also works. So perhaps something is not freeing a resource correctly.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2649618#post2649618