[SunRay-Users] Firefox and Flash on Sunrays

Aaron Wilson aaron at ernieball.com
Thu Oct 8 19:19:41 EEST 2009 

Update3

I take back all previous statements. Still doesn't work and now it 
exhibits the same previous hanging problems no matter where I install to 
or whether I use the tarball version or pkg version.



Aaron Wilson wrote:
> Update2:
>
> I did a pkgrm SFWfirefox
> I then download the tarball version of Firefox 3.53 and extracted it 
> to /opt/sfw/lib
> That's where the pkg version of Firefox 3.53 was installed.
>
> If I run /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/firefox I still experience hangs.
> If I run /home/aaron/Desktop/firefox/firefox I get one hang on the 
> initial flash and then everything works fine.
>
> On the 7 Ultra 20's I have here, all are running 
> /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/firefox without problems.
>
> Also /opt is a folder on the actual HDD for both the Sunray servers 
> and the ultra20s
> /home is a mount to our NAS.
> I don't if that's relevant but I can't think of why
> /home/aaron/Desktop/firefox/firefox works
> and
> /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/firefox doesn't
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>
> Aaron Wilson wrote:
>> Update:
>>
>> If I use the pkg'd version of Solaris 3.53 it still hangs on every 
>> piece of flash
>>
>>
>> Aaron Wilson wrote:
>>> I actually just saw some improvement for the first time in years.
>>>
>>> Like I said in the past it used to be just videos. It seemed like if 
>>> I went to youtube and played a video, the initial video would hang 
>>> the browser and once it came back subsequent videos would work on 
>>> youtube.com
>>> If I went to vimeo.com the initially played video would hang the 
>>> browser and subsequent videos on that site would play fine.
>>>
>>> Today I just downloaded the latest Firefox 3.53 build for Solaris 10 
>>> x86 and I downloaded the latest flash.
>>> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5.3/contrib/ 
>>>
>>>
>>> I just extracted the tarball to my desktop and put the flash plugin 
>>> in the plugins folder.
>>> Now it still hangs when I first load a page with flash but now it 
>>> seems subsequent flash pages regardless of domain seem to work fine. 
>>> Even video!
>>> I went to my company home page that has a small flash animation, 
>>> which did hang the browser for 10 seconds, but then I immediately 
>>> went to youtube and hit play on a video and it immediately started 
>>> playing. Amazing!! I haven't seen that in 3 years :)
>>>
>>> Might be to early to call and I should do more testing but initial 
>>> tests show marked improvement.
>>>
>>> That initial flash hang will undoubtedly still confuse my users, but 
>>> at least it doesn't appear to do that on every single page with 
>>> flash now.
>>>
>>> I think maybe I might be motivated to rebuild my servers now to the 
>>> latest Solaris release and SRSS build. Or maybe I'll be patient and 
>>> wait for SRSS 4.2.
>>>
>>>
>>> I guess next I'll try the actual pkg version of Firefox 3.53 and see 
>>> how that works system wide for my users.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>> Lars Tunkrans wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>    Which  version of Firefox  is used  ?    the Mozilla guys   
>>>> fixed a number of  "interesting"  bugs that caused firefox
>>>>      to hang    with  Firefox 2.0.0.18    latest is 2.0.0.20
>>>>
>>>>     I do belive you should upgrade to SRS 4.1    //Lars
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Aaron Wilson skrev:
>>>>> Apparently I'm the only one on the planet that can consistently 
>>>>> recreate this problem and have been able to do so for some years 
>>>>> now. I probably emailed this group 2 years ago with the same 
>>>>> problem and I think I just gave up hoping the problem would get 
>>>>> fixed. It has only gotten worse.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have two offices.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the one office Firefox with recent versions of Flash works fine 
>>>>> on SunRay servers
>>>>> In the other office Firefox with recent versions of Flash works 
>>>>> but with problems on SunRay servers.
>>>>>
>>>>> I used to have the problem where normal flash animations worked. 
>>>>> If I went to Youtube or any other site with flash videos, Firefox 
>>>>> would become unresponsive for anywhere between 30 seconds to 5 
>>>>> minutes. Generally it lasts for a minute or so. If I didn't have 
>>>>> 30 users telling me about it everytime it happens I could live 
>>>>> with it.
>>>>>
>>>>> That was with flash_player_9_solaris_r47_x86 and prior.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now with versions later than flash_player_9_solaris_r47_x86 all 
>>>>> flash animations regardless of how complex they are or whether or 
>>>>> not they have video, make the browser hang.
>>>>>
>>>>> Only difference between the two server setups is the one office 
>>>>> has local access over the LAN to the ldap server, and the other 
>>>>> office with flash problems accesses the ldap server over an MPLS VPN.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think when I last tried to report this I was told ldap couldn't 
>>>>> have any thing to do with this, which leaves SunRay software?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm in the office with flash sunray problems. In this same office 
>>>>> I have 7 Ultra 20 machines that don't use LDAP for authentication 
>>>>> and obviously don't have any SunRay software installed and they 
>>>>> can run the latest flash_player_10_solaris_r32_18_x86 with no  
>>>>> problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> The affected systems are running Sun Ray Server Software Version 
>>>>> 4.0 and Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would rebuild the servers with SRSS 4.1 and Solaris 10 5/09 
>>>>> s10x_u7wos_08 X86 but I've rebuilt my servers twice with previous 
>>>>> latest versions of Solaris and SRSS now. Neither of those rebuilds 
>>>>> made the problem go away.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I last rebuilt my servers I tested Flash before installing 
>>>>> SRSS and LDAP auth and Flash worked fine. So in my mind it's gotta 
>>>>> be SRSS or LDAP or both in tandem. I'm no software engineer 
>>>>> though  :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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