Flock crashing with Yahoo mail file attachments.

Hi Sophie. I cleared out all cookies, period. Logged out of Yahoo. Exited Flock. Started flock, got into Yahoo email (the new Yahoo email, not the old Yahoo email). Composed a message to myself. Hit the (blank) attachment button. It opened the file browser correctly. I then selected a teeny little ASCII file and boom - it totally crashed. This has been consistent with other files also.

Here is some more info... I started flock at the command line instead. Here is the error dump:

Login Manager: Searching for logins matching host: urn:facebook:service:100000124415682, formSubmitURL: Flock Login, httpRealm: null
Login Manager: No alternate nsILoginManagerStorage registered
Login Manager: Searching for logins matching host: urn:facebook:service:1633789671, formSubmitURL: Flock Login, httpRealm: null
Login Manager: Searching for logins matching host: urn:twitter:service:40097037, formSubmitURL: Flock Login, httpRealm: null
Login Manager: Searching for logins matching host: urn:yahoomail:service:williammspears, formSubmitURL: Flock Login, httpRealm: null

(flock-bin:7624): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(flock-bin:7624): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Login Manager: observer notified for form submission.
Login Manager: Searching for logins matching host: urn:yahoomail:service:williammspears, formSubmitURL: Flock Login, httpRealm: null
Login Manager: Removing login: [xpconnect wrapped nsILoginInfo]
Login Manager: Searching for logins matching host: urn:yahoomail:service:williammspears, formSubmitURL: Flock Login, httpRealm: null
Login Manager: Adding login: [xpconnect wrapped nsILoginInfo]
Login Manager: Searching for logins matching host: urn:yahoomail:service:williammspears, formSubmitURL: Flock Login, httpRealm: null
Segmentation fault

OK, I did remove flock, and re-installed it from the web (removing the whole .flock directory first), and impressively the same crash still occurs.

Would love to, but I don't see any crash log!
I'm in /home/wspears/.flock/browser/dhajgyw9.default and my files are:

4 blocklist.xml 4 extensions.ini 88 places.sqlite-journal
4 blogdrafts.sqlite 4 extensions.rdf 4 pluginreg.dat
4 bookmarkbackups/ 408 feedcontent.sqlite 24 prefs.js*
24 bookmarks.html 1720 flock-data.sqlite 4 search.sqlite
4 Cache/ 16 flock-data.sqlite-journal 16 secmod.db*
132 cert8.db* 196 formhistory.sqlite* 32 sessionstore.bak
4 chrome/ 4 hostperm.1* 40 sessionstore.js
4 compatibility.ini 16 key3.db* 4 signons3.txt
176 compreg.dat 12 localstore.rdf 32 urlclassifier3.sqlite
8 content-prefs.sqlite 0 lock@ 4 urlclassifierkey3.txt
540 cookies.sqlite* 4 lucene/ 12 webappsstore.sqlite
4 cookies.txt* 40 mimeTypes.rdf* 8 webdetective.sqlite
4 detect/ 48 mstore.sqlite 4936 XPC.mfasl
104 downloads.sqlite* 4 OfflineCache/ 108 xpti.dat
4 extensions/ 4 permissions.sqlite* 2076 XUL.mfasl
4 extensions.cache 12136 places.sqlite*

I've crashed it a few more times, but still don't find a crash file.

Oh - I tried flock 2.5.1 and flock 2.5 also, and have the same behavior. I believe all this started with Yahoo's all new mail (I didn't have any problems a month ago). Thanks for helping - I prefer flock to firefox on linux and would like to keep using flock. Bill

I'm starting to wonder if this is a flash plugin issue. I need two flash plugins for flock, one for facebook, and one for Youtube (this seems weird that I need both). The one built in to flock (v9) works for Youtube, but facebook demands I update to a newer version (v10).

Depending on which I disable, the "attach" tab in Yahoo mail works differently. Either it (1) "works" as I describe above, or (2) the tab appears (and does not go blank) but is not functional at all (i.e., clicking on the tab does nothing).

So, currently I'm just going to switch to Yahoo mail "classic", until we solve this problem.

Actually, Flock for Linux does not come with Flash v10. That is part of the problem. I did a fresh install using flock-2.5.2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2, and looked at the plugins. I attach a picture. You will note that v9 is what is currently packaged with Flock 2.5.2 for Linux. So, your linux package needs updating. Thanks, Bill

Sophie, it definitely looks like Flock for Linux has version 9.0 of Flash, not version 10.0 (how else do you explain the picture I posted)? That was a totally clean install, no other browsers open, etc. I have no extensions. I used a clean profile.

If you really believe Flock for Linux has version 10.0 of Flash, please tell me how to confirm that. It isn't clear where it is embedded in the distribution.

We are coming full circle. The reason for my first message was that I did in fact add v10, but it doesn't solve the crashing problem. Flock then has both v9 and v10, and no combination of enabling/disabling fixes the problem.

The Windows version of Flock has version 10 (I confirmed that). And Yahoo mail doesn't crash with attachments in Windows.

Thanks, Bill

I even more convinced v9 comes with the Linux version of flock. I right clicked on the "attach" tab in Yahoo mail and it said "About Adobe Flash Player 9". Even if I install v10, the tab still looks for the built in version of Flash, which is v9. If you can tell me how to specifically tell flock to ignore the built in version, and always use the v10 plugin, that would probably solve the problem. Thanks, Bill

Sophie, excellent! That was the key. "about:plugins" indicated that flash was being grabbed from the .mozilla directory! And that contained v9. I removed the two v9 files and now "about:plugins" says:

File name: /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

So, flock is now looking in the right place. v10 is now listed as the only plugin for flock. Right-clicking the attach button on Yahoo mail now says "About Adobe Flash Player 10".... and... the attachment does not crash flock any more. Bingo.

So, the lesson is (if anyone else has his problem), that it is not necessarily anything in .flock causing the problem, but old stuff in .mozilla (which apparently flock looks for).

So, I'll do a little more testing, but as of this point I'd say the problem is solved (I'm also double checking firefox/mozilla). Thanks!, Bill