Flash internal config tool is unresponsive

[Vin Shankar]

In at least Firefox and Chromium, the Flash Player Settings box that pops up if one right-clicks and selects "Settings...", or if a site requests access to more storage or the webcam, is unresponsive. The only way to dismiss it - and thus regain access to the flash object - is to reload the page and thus the Flash object in question.

Use of the tab key to bring the yellow hilight-box to the "close" button works, but a press of <space> or <enter> to activate it does not.

This is particularly problematic for sites that need to request storage, since the amount of storage permitted to a site cannot be changed with the standalone Flash Settings Tool.

I have encountered this in at least Natty and Oneiric, using Flash Player from both the flashplugin-installer (and its dependency flashplugin-downloader) and the adobe-flashplugin packages.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Issue exists iirc since flash version 11.1 and currently with precise, firefox 10.0 using 11.2 beta3 from Adobe itself.
Reading their forum I've removed .adobe and .macromedia which didn't change the behaviour.
Gave up to create an account there to submit a bug report because it didn't take any of selected screen names.
Maybe someone else has more luck.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/839/cpsid_83952.html#main_For_Linux_users

Attached glxinfo.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

As a workaround regarding storage request one may use global settings... via right click from context menu.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Embedded settings still unusable with 11.2 beta 4.