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Hello everyone,

Upon upgrading to KDE 3.4 I have noticed an EXTREME lack of stability in all web browser apps. For example, Firefox crashes when opening a lot of tabs and is very unstable unless I have the icon open a new terminal (in the icon's properties).

Furthermore, every browser (except Konqueror) crashes when I try to open it with a Flash file. Even though Konqueror doesn't crash it can't view the flash at all. The interesting part is that the crashing causes the same error. This is what error happens (in this case Firefox):


The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 117 error_code 8 request_code 143 minor_code 3)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


Replace the X in: "The program 'X' received an X Window System error...." with your browser of choice, for example:


The program 'epiphany-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 117 error_code 8 request_code 143 minor_code 3)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


I am currently running SuSE 9.2 i686 with KDE 3.4.

As you can see the error message is the same. Please help, I really don't want to have to use... gnome. Thank you in advance.

PS:
Here is where I posted on the Firefox forums:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=244870

Hello again,

I've actually discovered the real reason behind this crash. It has to do with Flash. As soon as I hit a site with any Flash on it, the browser crashes instantly and the same error is thrown. Interestingly enough this error is printed to stdout and not stderr (I donno if that helps though).

This explains why browsing around for a while will make the browser crash (since I eventually hit a site with Flash). In KDE 3.3 and Flash worked with no problems either. It seems that KDE 3.4 has no Flash support (even though I have the Flash plugin installed).

For example http://www.ebaumsworld.com instantly crashes all Gecko browsers as well as Epiphany. Konqueror cannot display the Flash at all and just leaves a white block for where the Flash should be.

Furthemore, I just removed the Flash plugin but the browsers still crash

YAY!

I upgraded XOrg and everything works now

Thanks for your help.