Firefox and flashblock sometimes do not work well

Bug #392667 reported by Atanas Atanasov
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
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Bug Description

I like enabling only flash content selectively on web-pages to reduce CPU hog. The flashblock plugin for firefox provides this precise feature. All flash content is blocked and you can enable it by clicking on the box. Unfortunately, this does not always work fine. Sometimes, the animation runs just fine, other times you get a gray box. I read about some "fixes" to click inside the animation, then outside, and others along the same lines but nothing worked. For example http://www.mathworks.com/products/demos/shipping/matlab/New-MATLAB-Mathematics-Features-in-R2009a.html does not work for me. I am running Jaunty with most recent updates -- firefox 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1, flash 10.0.22.87ubuntu2 and flashblock 1.5.10. I am sure this is not a problem with flash since epiphany (which does not have flashblock) displays content correctly (but does not block flash). I tested the same versions of firefox and flashblock on Windows, but the problem does not occur either. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Are you using an amd64 machine?

affects: firefox (Ubuntu) → firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Atanas Atanasov (thenasko) wrote :

I am sorry I forgot to mention this -- I am running amd64. Let me know if any further information is necessary.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 238606, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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