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Flash Player Plugin Hangs and Crashes While Debugging

Ever since I updated Firefox from version 3.6.x to 4 I began experiencing issues with Flash Player timing out and crashing during debugging sessions in FlashBuilder. I found that if I spent any more than a minute sitting on a breakpoint that FireFox would report that the Flash Player plugin had crashed, and end my debugging session. As it turns out, this was easily fixed in FireFox by doing the following:

In the address bar type:

about:config

Click the I’ll be careful button in the warning dialog and then scroll down to this line:

dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs

Double click on that line and set the value to -1

This corrects the issue in FireFox.

However, the same issue is present in Google Chrome and from my research through the known issues I found that the tickets that are related to plugin timeout have been listed as wontfix. As far as I know, it is not possible to configure Chrome timeout setting.

Wait or Kill
Plugin Chrashed

For the time being, I have created an issue located at: Issue 82378

 

4 Responses

  1. Scott Moore June 16, 2011 at 11:30 am |

    Was running into the exact same problem, following your instructions fixed it.

    Thanks!

  2. judah August 31, 2011 at 8:53 am |

    I’ve been running into the same issue as well. But it doesn’t always happen at one minute. It seems to only happen in certain sections of code. Thanks for the solution. Maybe a better option for browsers is to set the default higher if there are any socket connections, or if the Flash Player is a debug player and debug swf, or pop up a dialog with default settings and message, or…

  3. Dave September 12, 2011 at 12:08 pm |

    Thank you!

  4. Adrian January 13, 2012 at 5:43 am |

    Thanks for this tip – hugely annoying feature gone!

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