Flash Debug Player crashing Firefox

Flassari — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:36:52 +0000

After I updated Firefox past version 3.6.6 I started noticing some weird behavior when Flash Debug Player threw an error. Sometimes I would not be able to dismiss the error popup. Instead, it would freeze for almost a minute and then crash the flash plugin. It was nice that Firefox itself didn’t crash, but I found it quite irritating always having to kill the plugin-container.exe process to skip having to wait the 45 seconds every single time I visited a website with poorly written flash ads (majority of websites!).

Then I read nwebb’s blog post about a fix to this problem. To quote the blog post:

You need to go in to the Firefox config settings (type about:config in to the location bar) and search for dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npswf32.dll – double click that to set it to false. You may also need to set dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs to -1. Now restart your browser and you should once again be able to debug your apps and dismiss the warnings as you used to do in the good old days. Ahhhhh bliss.

Flash focus border in Firefox

Flassari — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:44:23 +0000

I’ve noticed recently that Firefox has started showing a 1px dotted border around flash objects when I click on them. It didn’t bother me enough to look for a solution, but today the solution found me.
In my rss reader a blog post from FlashComGuru pops up, showing how to get rid of this annoyance, pasted here for your convenience:

Simply add this to your page’s stylesheet:

a:focus, object:focus { outline: none; -moz-outline-style: none; }

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Flash Debug Player crashing Firefox

Flash focus border in Firefox