Comment 9 for bug 240930

I posted bug 238394, currently marked as one of 6 duplicates of this bug, but I have to say that (for me) the problem disappeared when I upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04, which isn't the experience here. I say "upgrade", I think I did upgrade originally, but I have since had to restore my system to a new hard disk, which I did by installing a clean 8.04 and restoring large parts of the file-system from backup, so I'm probably not a good reference point. Nevertheless, I'm not convinced these seven reports are all true duplicates.

Whilst I'm here, those affected by this bug might want to try Flash 10. It's available as a clean 64-bit plug-in and presumably has fewer hoops (bugs?) to jump through to actually put pixels on the screen. (It certainly gives me no problems.)

Also, since the unavoidability of Flash comes largely from its use in adverts, there's the option of blocking flash in most pages and only enabling it for sites where you actually wanted to watch the video. Won't help with YouTube, but certainly would for the average site, where flash videos are *only* used in annoying adverts!