controls fail to work in flash

[Stéphane Scot]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

In Firefox under Karmic Alpha 4 the controls do not work in flash. I have the standard "flashplugin-installer" installed.

Example: On Youtube when trying to watch a video the pause button works occasionally but then the play button will not work. No other controls work at all (Full Screen, Volume, et cetera).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 16 12:08:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic x86_64

[Stéphane Scot (stephane-chloste)]

I just test on Pandora and some other sites and controls fail there as well. Changed the name to represent this.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic one.
firefox-3.5 -ProfileManager

[anagor (anagor)]

I think the problem here is with nspluginwrapper.
I'm also on Karmic amd64, and the flash installed using flashplugin-installer indeed does not register clicks, however using the native 64 bit flash plugin downloaded from adobe directly works just fine.
So the problem probably is with the 32 bit wrappers, and not the firefox itself.

[anagor (anagor)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-8.28-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-8-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev pulse pulse-access sambashare vboxusers video

[Stéphane Scot (stephane-chloste)]

I don't know what the problem was but it definitely wasn't firefox. I tried new profiles, disabled extensions, &c. I then even tried Epiphany and Konquerer with no luck so it had to be flashplugin. Then I reinstalled karmic alpha4 from scratch(hadn't done a fresh install since hardy). It still didn't work then but after updates yesterday or the day before everything works again (for now * fingers crossed * ).

[denniscollective (the-best-email-address-ever)]

This only effects me when I have compositing turned on, when I go to system => preferences => apearence => visual effects and set it to none, it works fine, but with Normal or Extra its broken, I'm gonna dig into the compiz settings deeper, and see If I can fix it, but the default compiz settings fail

[fargoth (cantfind)]

Yeah, tried watching a youtube video with compiz disabled (like the above poster suggested), and the controls work for me.
doesn't work when effects are on...

[David Oxland (doxland)]

This only effects me when I have compositing turned on, when I go to system => preferences => apearence => visual effects and set it to none, it works fine, but with Normal or Extra its broken, I'm gonna dig into the compiz settings deeper, and see If I can fix it, but the default compiz settings fail
Same for me

[celil aydin (celil-aydin)]

it does not occur every videos at all but some of them.
also i realized that sometimes firefox completly frozen if you click one controller. if you switch off the visual effects, then everything works fine.

[NivekC1 (nivekc1)]

The problem is indeed with Visual Effects. I have tried installing all available 64-bit flash plugins and they all have the same problem except for when visual effects are turned off. With no effects the work flawlessly. My video is Intel 4500HD and I am using it via HDMI to my LCD. I do not know a whole lot about how the effects work or why they would cause this but I hope that we can get this resolved. I will help in any way I can, test patches whatever just let me know. <email address hidden>

[anagor (anagor)]

As I wrote before, for me the workaround was to use the native 64bit flash player from Adobe directly, it is in alpha stage right now, but I've found it very stable and responsive, so no worries there.
You can get it from here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
the download link is at the bottom.
but first you will have to remove the "flushplugin" that is already installed.

Extract the tar and the resulting "libflashplayer.so" you can put in either
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins - for a system wide access to the plugin, or in the
~/.mozilla/plugins - to have it only for your user.
restart firefox afterwards.

[anagor (anagor)]

This way it will work with visual effects enabled.
At least it works for me :)

[Cumberland (cumberlanddan)]

Same problem on Karmic amd64. I have an nVidia 6200

anagor's solution seemed to work except flash performance was very slow and caused Firefox to crash when I opened the iPlayer. I've reverted to no visual effects and re-installed the plugin from the repo's - which works fine!

[Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield)]

This is a duplicate bug report. You should not post new comments here. Please read all comments on the other bug report before posting anything new. The large list of comments is a good indication what you have said is already there.

You should read the description carefully as well. This is a duplicate of 410407 which is stated on the top of this bug report.

[Petengy (macdavidov)]

as anagor say installng the 64 bit flash plugin directly from adobe works (for me).

[coldReactive (coldreactive)]

@Petengy: If I install flash 64bits, youtube forces firefox to quit 9as does it with midori.)