Flashblock completely blocks Google Maps Street View

[komputes]

Binary package hint: flashblock

How to reproduce:
1) Install Ubuntu Desktop
2) Install flashplugin-nonfree and xul-ext-flashblock
3) In firefox go to maps.google.com
4) Zoom in close enough that you can see streets
5) Drag little yellow man onto street, preview image is shown
6) Once Mouse click is release Street View Flash Application starts
What happens: Yellow man stands on street, no street view displayed
Expected: Flashblock shows a play button to accept flash content, this should not be any different

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xul-ext-flashblock 1.5.13-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 4 07:22:19 2010
Dependencies:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100830)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashblock

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

This issue appears to be addressed in the developer's comments on the Firefox add-on page at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/ :

Google Street View: Flashblock is reported to prevent Google Street View from running when trying to start it from Google Maps. Please add maps.google.com to the Flashblock whitelist (For regional versions of Google such as maps.google.ch, maps.google.fr, and maps.google.de use "maps.google" as the whitelist string). The easiest way to do this is to put the Flashblock toolbar button on a toolbar and then clicking on the drop marker on the right edge of the button. Choose "Allow Flash from this site" while maps.google.com is in your tab/window.