Page renders incorrectly when flash is enabled [different behavior with firefox on windows!]

[Eloi Santos]

The website www.velox.com.br work with firefox+flash on windows, but it does not with firefox+flash on ubuntu.

Steps to reproduce:
1. go to www.velox.com.br
2. notice it renders correctly, but requires flash
3. install flash
4. go to www.velox.com.br
5. notice the flash works, but now the content is hidden

The issue does not exist when repeating above steps on windows.
So, its either specific to gecko+ubuntu, or flashplugin-linux

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

Both Mozilla and Opera are capable of rendering web-pages that follow the HTML standards.
If a website does not work with these browser, it's the fault of the people that created the website.

Perhaps you are just referring to the flash-player. This is something you need to install support for yourself.
You can do this by going to Programs -> Add/Remove and search for flash or install ubuntu-restricted-extras.

I will set this bug to won't fix, because it's out of the scope of Ubuntu.
You need to contact the webmaster of that website and explain to him, that he/she should support HTML standards. This way the page will work in Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Internet Explorer(windows) and Safari (mac).

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

Ralf, I'm not sure this is correct. I tried opening this page. I did not have flash at this point but I could see the HTML parts correctly (a girl and a guy with some text next to it). Then I clicked "Install missing plugins" and flash (commerical verison) was installed. The page automatically reloaded and now the Flash part rendered correctly. The problem though, was the the HTML part had disappeared. A big white area near the embedded Flash control seems to overlay/cover the HTML part.

I also tried this using latest Firefox on Windows and here everything renders just fine, even with Flash installed. So this problem does not affect all Firefox versions only Firefox on Ubuntu.

Feel free to close this bug again if you are sure that this bug is still invalid depsite the information I gave above.

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

@mnemo .. considering your comprehensive triage, i;ve put the bug on confirmed.

Sounds like a problem with the flash plugin. I'll put a comment on the flash-linux developper's blog, but I doubt he/she will read it. I wonder if there are any official lines to make adobe aware of platform specific bugs.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!