Flash inconsistency 9.10

[Nigel Ridley]

Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> Steve wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:01:21 -0000, Nigel Ridley
>>> <nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:
>>>> Running 9.10 from a fresh install.
>>>>
>>>> The page at:
>>>> http://www.rapala.com/how2tv/ loads OK and the intro flash
>>>> movie plays OK. There is a few icons
>>>> under the player window to choose a different lure. There is
>>>> also an icon to choose from a
>>>> complete list. There should be a slider bar under the visible
>>>> icons which allows you to see and
>>>> choose other icons.
>>>>
>>>> Here's the annoying bit. Firefox (3.6) and Opera will not show
>>>> anything in the pop-up window
>>>> (after clicking on the 'Video Playlist' icon/button) which
>>>> should show a list of choices. The
>>>> slider bar under the icons doesn't show.
>>>> However in Konqueror everything works as expected. What gives?
>>>> I have no problem with any other
>>>> Flash videos.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>> As far as me and my angling mates knew that page only worked
>>> properly with IE, so, I assume, Konqueror must be able to cope
>>> with one of IEs quirks. I did read on a forum, somewhere, that
>>> a few people had informed Rapala though not a lot seems to have
>>> come of this. Not much help I know but, you’re not the only one
>>> suffering :-/
>> It it quite strange as I used to be able to watch them all, but I
>> can't remember if it was before I did the fresh install of 9.10
>> (I was using 9.04).
>> My son has a GoS (Ubuntu 8.04 based) so I will try on that.
> 
> I think I read somewhere that flash inside firefox was affected by 
> the clientside windows bug. You could try executing firefox with the 
> GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS environment variable set to "1". You can do this 
> inside a bash shell by executing:
> GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 firefox
> and using that firefox to try viewing the video.
> I have no idea if this will work, but konqueror might be immune to 
> the issue since it doesn't use GTK.
> 
>   --Reinhold
> 
I just tried it on my son's GoS (Ubuntu 8.04 based) box (up to date) and it works as it should. 
So something is amiss with newer versions of Firefox and/or GTK/something else.

Nigel