Adobe Flash displays as gray box on some sites - Firefox 3.0.2

[Dante Díaz]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When i open a page that has more than one content in flash, sometimes not shown nothing of flash and i see only a gray block.

I currently use Adobe Flash Player version 10.0 rc, but same problem with version 9.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 24 13:18:35 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.2+build6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_PE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Craig (candrews-integralblue)]

I also see this issue frequently on Intrepid using Flash 10 beta (not RC - as of right now, that hasn't hit the archives).

My speculation is that Flash will crash, causing a gray box to appear, then all subsequent Flash uses fail, also resulting in a gray box.

Perhaps the Flash 10 bump will resolve this? See bug 257403

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Craig (candrews-integralblue)]

I still see this issue on Intrepid on both of my laptops.

[Yangwoo Ko (newcat)]

Same here.

I am using Interpid 64bit with firefox version 3.0.5 and flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.15.3ubuntu1~intrepid1...

It works good for some time (i.e. several hours of surfing). After that it starts to show every flash as a gray box.

[Norbert Fischer (nobart)]

I full ACK Yangwoo Ko, we have nearly the same environment. After some time it is just gray. Restarting Firefox helps here.

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: ati (fglrx)
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64