Steps to reproduce:
1) Open a flash file. Be it a game, video, website, etc.
2) Right click on the flash player and select "Settings"
3) Try to click on something in the dialog box such as a checkbox or a tab
What is expected to happen:
The dialog box responds to user input, e.g. checking a checkbox or switching to a different tab.
What happens instead:
The dialog box does not respond. Nothing happens when the user interacts with it. The user must refresh the page to exit the dialog box.
Workaround #1:
1) Go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html#117645
2) Configure your Flash Player settings using the Settings Panel
Workaround #2:
1) Open Flash in fullscreen mode
2) Open Settings and configure your preferences
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
Adobe flash player is configured on my system to ask before a website sets a flash cookie, so if a video (eg on youtube) is played, a dialogue box will pop up asking me whether or not to allow the website to store a cookie on my machine. However, nothing happens when I click on either 'allow' or 'deny', so the box stays put and I can't view or control the video playing beneath it.
On this machine I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10; in 11.04 there was a program for adjusting the flash player settings in the System Settings control panel, but that program is no longer there and not accessible via the dash, so there is no obvious way to just configure flash to allow all cookies and avoid the dialogue box.
Workaround: using Unity 2D instead
Notice : the problem has been already corrected two years before : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/410407?comments=all
I'll add that it's perhaps because of Compiz : It works with Unity 2d, KDE, Gnome-Shell, Gnome-Session-With-No-Effect BUT it affects Ubuntu 3D, Gnome-Session Fallback and Cairo-Dock session
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: firefox 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
AplayDevices:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: sean 1362 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: sean 1362 F...m pulseaudio
BuildID: 20110929002329
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf7db8000 irq 44'
Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC269'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,104383ce,00100004'
Controls : 12
Simple ctrls : 7
Channel: release
Date: Mon Oct 3 12:51:36 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/plugin-container
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExtensions: NoScript - ID={73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}, Version=2.1.4, minVersion=1.9a2, maxVersion=1.9.6, Location=app-profile, Type=extension, Active=Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
IpRoute:
default via 10.10.88.1 dev wlan0 proto static
10.10.88.0/21 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.10.92.255 metric 2
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0.1/20110929002329 (Running)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: True
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-26 (37 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/16/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1102
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: 1005HA
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.version: x.x
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1102:bd10/16/2009:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn1005HA:pvrx.x:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rn1005HA:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x:
dmi.product.name: 1005HA
dmi.product.version: x.x
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.