rekonq problems with loading web pages with flash (segmentation fault)

[heinkel_111]

I am experiencing very many crashes when loading web pages these days. I am on kubuntu 11.10 updated to kde 4.7.4 / rekonq 0.8 (I believe this is current official kubuntu stuff). The pages that crash all contain flash, or to put it the other way - the ones that are without flash, such as kubuntuforums, seem to load just fine.

Are there other users experiencing the same? I am thinking there may be something wrong with the nspluginviewer and/or flash integration in the kde based browsers. Konqueror however, does not crash, but reports that nspluginviewer crashed. In rekonq, the whole application goes down. Firefox appears to keep working.

[rms]

Any links to problem sites? I cannot even login to KFN with Reconq.

[heinkel_111]

The pages that crash are the ones that contain flash, which is used on very many websites, such as newspaper frontpages on the net. You could try http://vg.no, but as I said any page using flash appears to fail, maybe not always but at least often.

[SteveRiley]

A couple weeks ago, in another thread, I posted instructions for manually installing the 64-bit Flash player release candidate, which appears to cause fewer problems with Rekonq. I've copied those steps into a How-to post, and broaded the information to include the steps for the 32-bit player also.