Firefox freezes completely my archlinux

Hi,
I'm having frequent freezing issue with firefox when using libflashplayer.so. Archlinux just freezes and I lost the kernel. How can I know if there is a kernel panic?
(/usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja)
I also found that firefox complain about libvdpau_nvidia.so: archlinux firefox Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so
but I only have a intel HD Graphics 3000 and no nvidia?
What can I do to know what is the problem? And what can I do to try to solve it?
EDIT:
There no file libvdpau_nvidia.so installed:
locate -i libvdpau
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_trace.so
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_trace.so.1
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_trace.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/libvdpau
/usr/share/licenses/libvdpau/COPYING
Last edited by manouchk (2012-08-31 00:37:23)

See the section on "Full system freeze using flash" at the very end of the wiki article:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … sing_flash
Maybe that will help.

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