Saturday, May 7, 2011

Fullscreen flash crash in Ubuntu

Recently I've had this problem that my flash player in firefox/chrome crashes when I change it to full-screen mode. After searching for a while, I found that it has something to do with the libGL library. To solve this problem, you should reload this library before running firefox or chrome as shown in the following command:

# LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1 firefox

However, in the older versions of Ubuntu, e.g., 8.04, you should run the following command instead:

# LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 firefox

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