All flash site no longer working after FF 3.6.4?

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kstrike155
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Re: All flash site no longer working after FF 3.6.4?

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I'm having trouble with Flash now, too. I'm behind a corporate firewall/proxy, and since upgrading to 3.6.4 Flash sites no longer work (and they LOCK UP the browser).

If I kill plugin-container.exe at least I can regain control of the browser. Any suggestions? I have reinstalled Flash already.
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Re: All flash site no longer working after FF 3.6.4?

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kstrike155 wrote:I'm having trouble with Flash now, too. I'm behind a corporate firewall/proxy, and since upgrading to 3.6.4 Flash sites no longer work (and they LOCK UP the browser).

If I kill plugin-container.exe at least I can regain control of the browser. Any suggestions? I have reinstalled Flash already.

I'm guessing you have no access/control to that firewall?

If that is correct, then I would suggest you type about:config in the addressbar (note, that there are no spaces in that) and search for ipc in the seachbox at the top of the about:config page.

Right click
those top 5 entries and toggle them to the opposite of what they are now, i.e.


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dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npswf32.dll - true becomes...
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npswf32.dll - false ...and so on...

That will disable all the container stuff and you should be good to go.

[edit]Please see the addendum.....below.LIMPET235.[/edit]
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Re: All flash site no longer working after FF 3.6.4?

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Frank Lion wrote:I'm guessing you have no access/control to that firewall?


Nope. :(

Frank Lion wrote:If that is correct, then I would suggest...


That works beautifully, thank you. I'm not sure why it wouldn't work in the first place, though. From what I can tell the firewall on my actual machine doesn't block applications, only specific ports. And I'm assuming that the plugin-container.exe process still uses the proxy setting assigned in Firefox (and still travels over the standard HTTP(S) ports).

It would be nice to have the sand-boxed plugin processes. :(
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Re: All flash site no longer working after FF 3.6.4?

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Re: All flash site no longer working after FF 3.6.4?

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Locking before the solution gets lost in a cascade of thanks.

If you do have access to your firewall please see this post: viewtopic.php?p=9528629#p9528629
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Re: All flash site no longer working after FF 3.6.4?

Post by LIMPET235 »

Addendum....

Alice wrote:
Frank Lion wrote: To disable, see here - viewtopic.php?p=9530495#p9530495

Frank, that post says,
search for ipc in the searchbox at the top of the about:config page.
Right click those top 5 entries and toggle them to the opposite of what they are now

To disable plugin-container.exe for all plugins, all 5 dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.* preferences must be set to "false" in about:config ... like this: (Firefox 3.6.6)

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The first dom.ipc.plugins.enabled preference is already set to "false", by default. You don't want to set it to "true" since that would enable plugin-container for all other plugins! More information here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins


Thanks Alice.
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