[Firefox] very often the flash clips do not start

[Miroslav Hadzhiev]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Firefox (FF) does not 'start' the adobe flash plug-in after running for a long time.
I mean that you
1. start FF,
2. do some stuff and
3. do not close (restart) FF for, just a proposition, 40-60 minutes
then you open youtube

(i don't say that the previous opened web-pages do not include some flash banners or so,
I cannot say for sure whether the flash plug-in had been used or not)

and after opening youtube.com you try to open a video clip, click over the link, the web-page (with the video clip is opening) but the clip does not start. The frame of the video clip is there but it is just filled with white colour and no video clip starts.

If it is needed, I can take screen-shots of FF when the bug occurs.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 23 20:23:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

A screen-shot.

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

Another screen-shot (as you can see some of the flash controls work because i switched to the wide-screen aspect).

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

If you restart FF, the flash works correctly again.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

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.