[Bug 240896] [NEW] flash plugin on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy stops working after upgrade to firefox3-final from RC1 (Ubuntu stock)?

[gsimonita]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

~$ uname -a
Linux <myhost> 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 15:10:52 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 8.04
Release:	8.04

~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://sm.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://sm.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

I have upgraded Firefox this very morning.

Before it was fine. Now, every page which has a flash content loads with a gray area instead of the flash. The rest of the content (HTML) is fine.
I have had *exactly* the same problem, previously, with opensuse 10.3: at a certain point - a few months and upgrades ago - the flash plugin stopped working at all in Firefox 2.x.. With Konqueror, the flash movies were still playing just fine.
At that time, I thought that the problem might have also been related to either some (buggy?) library upgrade (always through the official distro repository) or to an architectural issue (the machine was an AMD64). At this point, though, I'm starting to think that maybe Firefox has something to do with it too.

This bug *might* be in some way related to #214722, but - again - it
worked fine before upgrading this morning to the final version of
Firefox3 from the Release Candidate which came stock with Ubuntu Hardy.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 18 11:20:08 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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flash plugin on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy stops working after upgrade to firefox3-final from RC1 (Ubuntu stock)?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240896
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