[Solved]KDE 4.6.3/firefox 4.0.1 flashplayer crashes exiting full...

Just updated to KDE 4.6.3 today, soon thereafter I went to southparkstudios.com using firefox 4.0.1 to watch an episode. The flash video played fine but when I go to leave the video's full screen mode it crashes X and drops me at the kdm screen. I tried it repeatedly and with two different kernels, the vanilla 2.6.38.5-1 and 2.6.38.5-1-lqx, with the same exact results.
I also have an Xfce 4.8.1 setup on another set of partitions (same kernels) with exactly the same browser with exactly the same add-ons and plugins and no probs whatsoever so it looks like its related to kde somehow.
I have a bunch of these in ~/.xsession-errors too.
plasma-desktop(1598)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0)
plasma-desktop(1598)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0)
Couldn't really find much else as it crashes silently. Just that the xserver was terminated unexpectedly
Anyway, I know these little issues do pop up with flash from time to time. And I wanted to know if anyone else is experiencing similar issues and/or aware of any work-arounds.
arch, 2.6.38.5-1-ARCH and 2.6.38.5-1-lqx
kde 4.6.3 and xfce 4.8.1
firefox 4.0.1
flashplugin 10.2 r159
core,extra and community repos only
Last edited by disastrophe (2011-05-07 04:57:30)

Update - switching to flashplugin-beta 10.3r181 from the AUR solves the issue for me and seems to work quite well so far. And  I didn't mention, 32 bit architecture here.
Last edited by disastrophe (2011-05-07 04:59:11)

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