Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with a Flash object Firefox core dumps. The error is as follows: Feb 13 18:57:53 w00f kernel: pid 27652 (firefox-bin), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped). I have installed the following relevant ports: /usr/ports/www/firefox /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-firefox
I'm not sure if the following applies to your problem, but you might want to try it anyways.
I use Mozilla and it appeared to crash a lot recently. Everytime it crashed, a message like the one you mention was printed to the console. When I started Mozilla from a shell (instead of from the Gnome menu), I noticed that when Mozilla exited, a message like
Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.' at line 988 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_mutex.c (errno = 0) Abort trap
was printed to the terminal. Searching the CVS log for the file revealed that apparently www/linuxpluginwrapper needs to be rebuild. It seems that upgrading that port has fixed my problems.
Well, I think this applies only to 5-Stable after Feb 4th, 2005, and since you didn't mention which version you're running I don't know if it applies to your problem.
HTH,
Phil.
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