Orca and Flash Freeze Whole Computer

[Stormdragon]

Binary package hint: gnome-orca

When Loading a page with flash content, Orca stops speaking. I have tried to get to applications menu to log out and back in, but it doesn't work. The only way I have found to get the computer working again is to press ctrl-alt-backspace. It is very easy to duplicate, just have orca running and load any site with audio/video flash content. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy. This problem did not happen in 7.10 Gutsy.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 23 14:04:26 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: gnome-orca 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-orca
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Stormdragon (stormdragon2976)]

I found a work around. If you don't actually need the flash content, you can install the Web Visum plugin. It can be found at:
http://www.webvisum.com/
Once the plugin is installed, it will have a menu under the tool menu in Firefox. In one of the sub menus are the options hide flash content and disable page background sound. I checked both of these and my computer hasn't frozen on flash pages any more.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Is this still an issue with Ubuntu intrepid, or even Ubuntu jaunty?

[Stormdragon (stormdragon2976)]

This hasn't been a problem in a long time. It was fixed shortly after I filed the bug.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.