Firefox stops correctly showing flash

[Michael Giardino]

Binary package hint: firefox

After a couple hours of having firefox open, flash movies (youtube, etc.) along with banners and such stop displaying. I just get a gray box. If I restart firefox, everything is fine.

System info:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041515 Firefox/3.0b5
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124

Linux fenster 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 x86_64

I was running the beta 8.04, but have been doing all updates.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

flashplugin bug. not firefox.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom reproducible using the Flash 10 beta?

[Michael Giardino (mikelj)]

I'm having trouble installing flash 10 beta. I have it downloaded, but I cannot get firefox 3.05b to see it. If you have any ideas, let me know.

[Qiuli (ivyharry)]

I would like to confirm this report.

also. if multiple flash pages are opened, the later opened pages may display the flash content as a gray block as well.

some times restart firefox helps, but some times may not help

[Sebastian Urban (surban)]

Confirming. Happens on various machines.

How to test using Flash 10 beta? Is there a x64-package for it? As far as I know the version from hardy-backports installs Flash 9.

[Jeroen Hoek (mail-jeroenhoek)]

I can confirm this on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid 64bit with Flash 10. After some time Flash content will only be displayed as a grey box. Restarting the browser always works for me.

flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.15.3ubuntu1~intrepid1
firefox 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1

(Linux 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux)

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Yeh I get this a lot as well on flash 10.

(using the 64bit flash plugin rather than the nsplugin'd 32 bit normally just results in whole firefox crashes too often).

Dave