1. Installing Chrome should have no effect on Firefox. 2. Chrome/chromium has dropped support for NPAPI plugins
If you can reproduce the crash with firefox, please try to get a stacktrace: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs?action=show&redirect=DebuggingFirefox#Crashes ** Changed in: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to flashplugin-nonfree in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1203899 Title: NPAPI Flash plugin freezes chrome, firefox Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: If i disable PPAPI Flash Plugin in chrome, then try to run a flash object (YouTube video, flash game, etc...) chrome will hang causing me to force restart. this seems to only happen with the NPAPI plugin (11.2 r202 of libflashplayer.so) firefox SEEMS to start working AFTER I installed chrome, as it provided it's own version of flash. (PPAPI plugin) (I cannot create the firefox crashes after i installed chrome. maybe it delegates flash to other programs?) OS: Description: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch) Release: 13.10 FireFox: firefox 23.0~b4+buil amd64 Chrome: 28.0.1500.71 (Official Build 209842) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/1203899/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
