[regression] Severe graphical artifacting with Hulu/Flash in Firefox
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04, www.hulu.com has severe graphical artifacting in Firefox. The artifacting affects areas of the page controlled by the Flash plugin. Basically various areas within the Flash content are randomly obscured by dark grey rectangles, which have the same colour as the background. I've attached an example screenshot showing a common case where the episode description text is obscured by an artifact (circled in red). Other areas that are often affected include the left and right buttons at the edge of the screen and the horizontal row of show selection radio buttons right below the show screenshot.
The problem does not happen in Chrome.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 4.0.1+build1+
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 21 13:35:48 2011
FirefoxPackages:
firefox 4.0.1+build1+
flashplugin-
adobe-flashplugin N/A
icedtea-plugin N/A
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-08 (13 days ago)
Someone nicely demonstrated this issue in this video: http:// www.youtube. com/watch? v=AAOLL2pUV08