Firefox and Adobe Flash Player

David Vincent dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Sat Jan 26 05:59:10 UTC 2008


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Alex Janssen wrote:
> David Vincent said the following on 01/25/2008 11:58 PM:
>> Ahh.  The old flash-menu-behind-the-swf bug.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-non"windowless
>> plug-in support"free/+bug/49613
>>
>> Seems this is a Firefox/Adobe bug and will not be fixed in FF 2.x, you
>> need to wait for FF 3.0.  That will let Adobe implement something called
>> "windowless plug-in support".
>>
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137189
>>
>> No, I did not read the entirety of either bug report.  Sounds like I
>> have the same setup as you - FF 2.0.0.11, Ubu 7.10, Flash 9.0 r115.  If
>> you don't have r115 of Flash and want it, enable the "gutsy-proposed"
>> repo (Pre-release updates).  Iirc that is where I installed it from.
>>
>> - -d
>>   
> Does "Flash 9.0 r115" fix the problem for you?
> 

erm, no.  your original message didn't mention flash and menus so i
jumped the gun a little.  it appeared to render fine but i did not try
the menus.

hope i didn't get your hopes up.  are you going to upgrade to a FF 3.0
pre-release to workaround it?

- -d


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