Found a Fix for Ubuntu Youtube Fullscreen Firefox 3.5 crash.

[froggyboy604]

Open firefox.sh with a text editor at /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.sh or where you installed FF to .

I also like to note that Mozilla seem to changed the name of firefox.sh to run-mozilla.sh , so if firefox.sh is not in your firefox folder then edit run-mozilla.sh instead or a file with a .sh extension since there is only one .sh file in the FF folder

Add the code shown after this sentance to the second line of firefox.sh.

CODE export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

and press save.

The Code for firefox.sh should look like this:


CODE #!/bin/sh  
#  
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1  
#  
# ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****  
# Version: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1  

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[Yoshi]

Nice job Froggyboy

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I agree with stosh, good job finding it.

 

[froggyboy604]

Thanks,

I also like to note that mozilla seem to changed the name of firefox.sh to run-mozilla.sh , so if firefox.sh is not in your firefox folder then edit run-mozilla.sh instead.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

This is why I build from source lol...

So bugs like this do not happen

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[froggyboy604]

I'm surprised that Firefox and Ubuntu did not catch and fix this this bug in Ubuntu 9.04 Firefox since a lot of people use youtube, and like to watch Videos in Full screen.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

QUOTE (froggyboy604 @ July 22, 2009 01:05 am) I'm surprised that Firefox and Ubuntu did not catch and fix this this bug in Ubuntu 9.04 Firefox since a lot of people use youtube, and like to watch Videos in Full screen.
that is why I use a bleeding edge distro or rolling release

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[Spiritwarrior]

Good solution to the problem, you should file a bug report to Mozilla on this, chances are most of Ubuntu users may be having the same issue.