Youtube, Pandora Radio, etc. do not respond to clicks in Firefox 3.5 with flashplugin-nonfree on Ubuntu 9.10

[Nick Davis]

Binary package hint: adobe-flashplugin

I can open Pandora in Firefox 3.5, but whenever I click the buttons, the clicks don't register, and the flash UI seems unresponsive to any actions. I've tried multiple times, restarting Firefox, rebooting, and reinstalling the flash plugin. This issue appears as a thread in the forums, and reinstalling the flashplayer plugin was suggested, but this had no effect, and the problem is still present.

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 with the 32-bit flash player plugin. Here are the version details from about:plugins in Firefox:

File name: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 10 16:00:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1988): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1988): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2094): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2079): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (nautilus:2272): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Rusty Burchfield (gicodewarrior)]

Note, to workaround, right click once on the flash player to bring up the context menu and then double-click on the button you want to activate. Seems to workaround the issue most of the time for me.

[Tessa (unit3)]

I'm having this same problem using Google Chrome on Karmic with the 64bit flash plugin, so it does seem to be a bug in the flash plugin itself. It manifests on lots of different flash applets on many different sites.

[Eric Langlois (ericlngls1)]

For me, running Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 with the 32-bit flash player plugin "and" Compiz effects make this bug happened. If you deactivate compiz, the plugins works properly. See:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1293921
I hope this will be corrected soon.

[Eric Langlois (ericlngls1)]

See this workaround, it works for me:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/410407