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piginawig

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Nov 29, 2007
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Let's start out with the facts. I have a iMac running Mac OS X 10.5.4. This problem started a few weeks ago. I visited a site with flash in it, and it crashed my browser, firefox. Any website with flash would crash firefox. Weird, so I switched to Safari. It still crashed! So I went ahead and downloaded Camino just to make sure, and it crashed Camino.

So this leads me to believe that there is something wrong with the plug-in. The first thing I tried was reinstalling. No success there, it still crashes. So, I try installing earlier versions of flash, still crashes. I tried all the way up to a pretty early version of flash 9.

So this obviously was out of my league. Well, it was out of my league from the beginning, but anyway. Someone said to try resetting the permissions. When I did, it said something the flash plug-in over and over again. Unfortunately, I was to stupid to write it down. I even put in the install disk and repaired the hard drive. Even after all this work, the browser still crashes.

Here are the messages that I get in the console when firefox crashes:

7/15/08 8:39:10 PM com.apple.launchd82 (0x0-0x23023.org.mozilla.firefox167) Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 169 PPID 1 crashreporter

It also says this:

7/15/08 8:39:10 PM com.apple.launchd82 (0x0-0x23023.org.mozilla.firefox167) Exited with exit code: 1


Safari says this:

7/15/08 8:39:30 PM com.apple.launchd82 (0x0-0x25025.com.apple.Safari171) Exited abnormally: Bus error

Camino says the same thing:

7/18/08 10:12:23 PM com.apple.launchd[82] ([0x0-0xee0ee].org.mozilla.camino[1311]) Exited abnormally: Bus error

Any ideas? Any hope that I don't have to take this to the apple store? Any help is appreciated, even if it doesn't fix it.
 
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