OK. Thanx - that (gnash) restored YouTube to my Firefox browser, however, CBC Radio is still not streaming in Firefox. Works fine on Google Chrome, but not Firefox or Opera.
----- Original Message ----- From: ".cobnet" <968...@bugs.launchpad.net> Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:06 pm Subject: [Bug 968759] Re: adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.228-0lucid1freezes firefox display - crashes some webkit programs (depends on cpu) To: chucklebe...@shaw.ca > My parents have the same problem on their "AMD Athlon(tm) XP > 2400+". At > one moment (after an update I guess), the black frame (where eg. the > Youtube video should be) changed to a white frame. But of course > white,black or some other colour: it didn't work :-(. > > Workaround that I used on my parents pc: install browser-plugin-gnash. > At the moment everything seems to work. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (969690). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/968759 > > Title: > adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.228-0lucid1freezes firefox > display - > crashes some webkit programs (depends on cpu) > > Status in “adobe-flashplugin” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > Using Firefox 11.0 and the Adobe's Shockwave Flash > 11.1.202.228 in youtube. Youtube and all flash sites shows a > black box instead of the player. It works fine on Google Chrome. > i'm reinstall this package and nothing happend. > > im using Ubuntu lucid 10.04.3 Adobe-flashplugin > 11.2.202.228-0lucid1 > adobe-flash-properties-gtk works fine. > > This package is not stable. > - > This is apparently caused by the use of SSE2 instructions > in new versions of adobe flash binaries, but only on older CPU's > not implementing SSE2. There is an upstream bug reported for > this: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3161034 > > Note that this code is binary only outside of Adobe. > > Where lernid, and apparently epiphany-browser use webkit > they don't > catch SIGILL. Both crash and close with the message > "Illegal Instruction" sent to the console. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adobe- > flashplugin/+bug/968759/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/968759 Title: adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.228-0lucid1freezes firefox display - crashes some webkit programs (depends on cpu) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adobe-flashplugin/+bug/968759/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs