linux-traipu team mailing list archive

[Evertjan Garretsen <Egarretsen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that Adobe Flash Player is a semi-abandod piece of software, but 
it will take years before Flash will be completely gone from the 
internet. Maybe it will take 15 years. Everybody knows that ie6's 
lifetime was way too long. Some functionality provided by Flash is not 
supported by other techniques, like video conferencing. It will take 
years before other techniques will be mainstream to support this and 
flash will be the only way to provide cross-browser, cross-platform 
video conference (webcam and audio) support. Flash is too important on 
the internet at the moment to have such a big bug in linux. I have 
developed a chat site and the only way to support webcam chat with audio 
is using flash. On linux this is always problematic and going to the 
global settings just isn't a good solution.


On 11/15/2012 01:39 AM, Robert Charlton wrote:
> Robert Zelic, that's odd. I you sure it's not a problem specific to
> yourself? If it isn't, I think we'll need a whole other bug report just
> for adobe-flash-plugin. Then again, IMO, we should be focusing on open
> source alternatives rather than try to bandage this semi-abandoned piece
> of software.
>

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU -
AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/865672

Title:
  "Adobe Flash Player Settings" dialog does not respond to mouse clicks

Status in Chromium Browser:
  New
Status in Compiz:
  New
Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  New
Status in Midori: Webkit Web browser:
  Confirmed
Status in Unity Distro Priority:
  Fix Released
Status in “adobe-flashplugin” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “midori” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:
  1) Open a flash file. Be it a game, video, website, etc.
  2) Right click on the flash player and select "Settings"
  3) Try to click on something in the dialog box such as a checkbox or a tab

  What is expected to happen:
  The dialog box responds to user input, e.g. checking a checkbox or switching to a different tab.

  What happens instead:
  The dialog box does not respond. Nothing happens when the user interacts with it. The user must refresh the page to exit the dialog box.

  Workaround #1:

  1) Go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html#117645
  2) Configure your Flash Player settings using the Settings Panel

  Workaround #2:
  1) Open Flash in fullscreen mode
  2) Open Settings and configure your preferences

  ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
  Adobe flash player is configured on my system to ask before a website sets a flash cookie, so if a video (eg on youtube) is played, a dialogue box will pop up asking me whether or not to allow the website to store a cookie on my machine.  However, nothing happens when I click on either 'allow' or 'deny', so the box stays put and I can't view or control the video playing beneath it.
  On this machine I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10; in 11.04 there was a program for adjusting the flash player settings in the System Settings control panel, but that program is no longer there and not accessible via the dash, so there is no obvious way to just configure flash to allow all cookies and avoid the dialogue box.

  Workaround: using Unity 2D instead

  Notice : the problem has been already corrected two years before : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/410407?comments=all
  I'll add that it's perhaps because of Compiz : It works with Unity 2d, KDE, Gnome-Shell, Gnome-Session-With-No-Effect BUT it affects Ubuntu 3D, Gnome-Session Fallback and Cairo-Dock session

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: firefox 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
  AplayDevices:
   **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
   card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
     Subdevices: 0/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  ArecordDevices:
   **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
   card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
     Subdevices: 1/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  sean       1362 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   sean       1362 F...m pulseaudio
  BuildID: 20110929002329
  CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  Card0.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf7db8000 irq 44'
     Mixer name	: 'Realtek ALC269'
     Components	: 'HDA:10ec0269,104383ce,00100004'
     Controls      : 12
     Simple ctrls  : 7
  Channel: release
  Date: Mon Oct  3 12:51:36 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/plugin-container
  ForcedLayersAccel: False
  IfupdownConfig:
   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback
  IncompatibleExtensions: NoScript - ID={73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}, Version=2.1.4, minVersion=1.9a2, maxVersion=1.9.6, Location=app-profile, Type=extension, Active=Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  IpRoute:
   default via 10.10.88.1 dev wlan0  proto static
   10.10.88.0/21 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.10.92.255  metric 2
   169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0  scope link  metric 1000
  Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0.1/20110929002329 (Running)
  RunningIncompatibleAddons: True
  SourcePackage: firefox
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-26 (37 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 10/16/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 1102
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: 1005HA
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
  dmi.board.version: x.xx
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
  dmi.chassis.version: x.x
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1102:bd10/16/2009:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn1005HA:pvrx.x:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rn1005HA:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x:
  dmi.product.name: 1005HA
  dmi.product.version: x.x
  dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/865672/+subscriptions