Ubuntu
firefox-3.5 package

flash not appear, or if appears i cannot control it

Bug #511421 reported by AbuYusuf on 2010-01-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #410407: Buttons don't respond to mouse clicks. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

sometimes flash not appear in the webpages, like youtube and others
and when it appears another times, i cannot control it, for example in youtube, i cannot pause video or stop it.
and some times, it works perfectly without any problems !

i tried to disable all addons, but nothing changed !

I'm using 64bit version of FireFox ( 3.5 )

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 23 02:07:38 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

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AbuYusuf (ahmed-abuyusuf) wrote on 2010-01-23:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (121.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profile_default_pluginreg.dat.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Matt Rogers (matt-rogers) wrote on 2010-02-12:

I have been told that the open source flash players like swdec do not currently have this problem but considering how often adobe seems to update flash these days I would prefer to have the official one if there is a fix

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-02-12:

Seems like you're suffering from 2 bugs here:
bug 238606 and bug 410407
Since I can only mark one as a duplicate, I'll mark it for bug 410407, but please don't comment unless there is something missing as there are a lot of comments already.