Videos can't play at Yahoo news

[John Kolak]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

1) You are using Ubuntu 9.10 - the Karmic Koala - released in October 2009 and supported until April 2011.

2) Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5

3) View news videos at Yahoo.

4) Video clip area shows code instead of video. Preview clips below don't show either.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 9cb2f9b3f2d6044e4065ef309db6043b
CheckboxSystem: 0531969bcfd4f03af7405c98dc94a948
Date: Sun Nov 29 13:40:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1685): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1685): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1793): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1783): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:1782): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -4 and height 24

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Does the same thing happen with the Adobe Flash Player? You can install it by installing flashplugin-installer