[Bug 378798] [NEW] installation of adobe flash player, then total freeze in firefox upon display of a small grey pop-up window

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Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

hello,
I installed adobe flash player 10 (automatic) to use google street.
Restarted : google street worked OK (this morning)
New start (this afternoon) / google / look for" how to underline text in gedit" (search in french) / got answers on "commentcamarche" / click on link / got on the left a small grey pop-up window, about 1/8th of the screen, with rounded corners. Then total freeze : even the start button of the computer did nothing. I had to unplug the computer (no switch on/off).
And now I report to you.
I am very new on Ubuntu,for less than 1 month, coming from XP malware infected : 10 minutes to start, 10 minutes to shut down.
At the begining impressed by the immediate start of Ubuntu.
Now few seconds as I installed new programs (for webcam... and so on to work quite the same as with XP).
Include part :

0)  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300122 (from
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage)  : exactly the same bug

1)  Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
Release:	8.10                      (got from 'lsb_release -rd' nothing found with "System -> About Ubuntu") 
2) checking in Synaptic for "adobe flash player" I find "flashplugin-nonfree" and ""flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound" both non checked so not installed. I have to say that I installed adobe flashplayer from the windows in google street saying I need it to use Google street. On adobe site I selected flashplayer for Ubuntu 8.10 . The installation went OK. And then see above the description of the bug.
   Question : is not the bug due to the fact that I installed adobe flash player directly from internet by the link in google street and not from Synaptic ?
3)  and  4) explained above : adobe flash payer working properly

I report as well on "https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300122 (from
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage)  : exactly the same bug"

Thanks
Regards

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.24.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686

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


** Tags: apport-bug

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installation of adobe flash player,then total freeze in firefox upon display of a small grey pop-up window
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