Flash player from Adobe and gecko-mediaplayer are mutual exclusive in Firefox

[Kjell L.]

I have a Jaunty 64 bit system. Firefox crash when I play gecko-mediaplayer and flash player (Adobe) at the same time. If I start the mplayer (gecko) first flash will not start. If I start with flash first and start mplayer Firefox will crash.

Here are two test site:

youtube.com (Flash)

nrk.no/netttv (mplayer)

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

Sorry, but I am unable to duplicate this issue. I was able to open the nrk.no site and then try to watch a video (which is regionally limited) and then when immediately to youtube and played a video.

Do you have any addins installed in firefox like adblock, noscript or any other tools like that?

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I'm also unable to reproduce, note that I'm using the 64 bits plugin directly from adobe so I can't exclude a problem with flashplugin-nonfree either in the packaging or in an ubuntu specific patch.

[Kjell L. (lkjell)]

I don't have extra addon. I have noticed that the flash player is kinda unstable. It freezes sometimes when you play multiple flash videos.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I opened a flashplugin-nonfree task; unless you can help us to pinpoint your problem I will have to close the gecko-mediaplayer one, neither me nor upstream can reproduce this issue.

[Kjell L. (lkjell)]

To be more specific I use gecko-mediaplayer to replace Windows media player. Firefox do not use the gecko player by default and must be selected under Tools > Manage Content Plug-ins

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I'm sorry, I really don't see what we can do in gnome-mplayer about this problem. If you can give us some useful information please reopen the task.

[Kjell L. (lkjell)]

Looks like it was flash 32 bit that was the culprit. Have 64 bit flash now and no problemo.