Ubuntu
firefox package

firefox flash videos blocks area in other tabs

Bug #911276 reported by piratemurray on 2012-01-03

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Expired	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Firefox 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.2
Shockwave Flash 11.2 d202
Ubuntu Oneiric x86

Only noticed this when upgraded to FF9 via update manager.

Watching a video in one tab then switch to another tab. Partial areas of the other tab can't be viewed whilst the flash video is running. Area is exact size of flash video see attached screenshot.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Load flash video in one tab
2) Open another tab and browse to website

Expected result:
Flash video in one tab does not interfere with the content of the the second tab

Actual result:
Flash video area (but not playing video) is carried over to second tab making navigation in second tab imposible

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: firefox 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.2 [modified: usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/en-US/google.xml]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.24-generic-pae 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic-pae i686
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: mpahlan 2000 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: mpahlan 2000 F...m pulseaudio
BuildID: 20111228084953
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf2620000 irq 45'
   Mixer name : 'Intel IbexPeak HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:14f15069,17aa214c,00100302 HDA:80862804,17aa21b5,00100000'
   Controls : 12
   Simple ctrls : 6
Card29.Amixer.info:
Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'/'ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 6IHT38WW-1.13'
   Mixer name : 'ThinkPad EC 6IHT38WW-1.13'
   Components : ''
   Controls : 1
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card29.Amixer.values:
Simple mixer control 'Console',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Channel: release
Date: Tue Jan 3 14:50:28 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=9.0.1/20111228084953 (Running)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-30 (33 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6IET74WW (1.34 )
dmi.board.name: 2522CT3
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6IET74WW(1.34):bd10/25/2010:svnLENOVO:pn2522CT3:pvrThinkPadT410:rvnLENOVO:rn2522CT3:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2522CT3
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T410
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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piratemurray (mez-pahlan) wrote on 2012-01-03:

Screenshot at 2012-01-03 14:49:56.png Edit (192.4 KiB, image/png)
AlsaDevices.txt Edit (587 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AplayDevices.txt Edit (261 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (60.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Amixer.values.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt Edit (8.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.3.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (125.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Extensions.txt Edit (608 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpAddr.txt Edit (840 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpRoute.txt Edit (19.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (551 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (15.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciMultimedia.txt Edit (598 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciNetwork.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Plugins.txt Edit (959 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Prefs.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PulseSinks.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PulseSources.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (128 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Themes.txt Edit (129 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (34.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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piratemurray (mez-pahlan) wrote on 2012-01-03:

Tried this in safe mode as intructed. Still has issues. Can rule out add ons....... well apart from Flash itself!

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piratemurray (mez-pahlan) wrote on 2012-01-04:

Observed this to happen with the Adobe Reader 9.4 plugin too (nppdf.so). Only worse.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Open a pdf in a new tab
2) Adobe plugin renders pdf inside tab
3) open another tab
4) navigate to site (e.g. www.gmail.com)
5) interact with site (e.g. try to login)

Expected result:
interactions can be seen (e.g. clicking on links changes colour, entering into text boxes shows characters entered, etc)

Actual result:
can't see any interactions

This is worse since the pdf reader plugin is the whole size of the tab and not just limited to the size of a flash video so you really can't do anything :(

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Lars Egeberg Hansen (oakmount) wrote on 2012-01-10:

Screendump 2012-01-10 09:02:26.png Edit (263.2 KiB, image/png)

I've the same problem but not only on Adobe products. I first discovered it when running IBM Host On Demand which is a Java application. The Java application window in one tab freezes the content of data in all other tabs. The content that is freezed is the first tab I enter after using IBM Host On Demand. See attachment.

After closing the tab with Flash or IBM HOD the window area is released again.

I've seen this bug with Ubuntu 11.04 and earlier FF than 9. But as I'm on 11.10 and FF 9 I can't say when it started.

Regards Lars.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-01-10:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Tom Ellis (tellis) wrote on 2012-02-06:

Firefox 10 is the latest in Ubuntu 11.10, did you see the same issue with it?

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piratemurray (mez-pahlan) wrote on 2012-02-06:

Can confirm that I do not see this issue with FF10. No idea what caused it so can't definitively rule out that the upgrade to FF10 fixed the issue. But, no, not seeing it anymore with F10.

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Lars Egeberg Hansen (oakmount) wrote on 2012-02-07:

Hi !

I can confirm that I don't see this issue anymore either after upgrading to FF10. I've tried with several flash and Java pages and it seem to work fine again.

Regards Lars.

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Murilo Opsfelder Araújo (mopsfelder) wrote on 2012-02-13:

Today I applied Lucid updates and stopped working again.

With Firefox 10.0 it was working fine. With Firefox 10.0.1 it isn't.

Here is the aptitude log:

Aptitude 0.4.11.11: log report
Mon, Feb 13 2012 09:55:10 -0200

IMPORTANT: this log only lists intended actions; actions which fail due to
dpkg problems may not be completed.

Will install 8 packages, and remove 0 packages.
===============================================================================
[UPGRADE] firefox 10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2 -> 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
[UPGRADE] firefox-branding 10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2 -> 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
[UPGRADE] firefox-gnome-support 10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2 -> 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
[UPGRADE] firefox-locale-bn 10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2 -> 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
[UPGRADE] firefox-locale-de 10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2 -> 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
[UPGRADE] firefox-locale-en 10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2 -> 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
[UPGRADE] firefox-locale-es 10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2 -> 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
[UPGRADE] firefox-locale-pt 10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2 -> 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
===============================================================================

Log complete.

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rihad (rihad) wrote on 2012-05-24:

#10

Same thing latest stable Kubuntu, FF 12.0. Not only that, the snapshot of flash video is displayed in another tab.

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote on 2019-01-12:

#11

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported in a currently supported version of Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do and in which version of Ubuntu otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2019-03-14:

#12

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Expired

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