[OpenIndiana-discuss] Workaround for Flash issue

[Jonathan Adams]

I can confirm that if you go to
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/before you open any flash
video then the flash video shows without problems.

almost worth while setting this as my home page :)

Jon


On 24 January 2014 10:34, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow ... I can confirm that this works with videos on bbc/iplayer and
> youtube.
>
> you don't need to go to the site with the videos to do this, any flash
> object works (the Enterprise manager from Oracle11 is flash based)
>
> the "About" page leads to : http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ I
> don't know if it'd work if you go straight there, instead of right-clicking
> an existing flash.
>
> Jon
>
>
> On 24 January 2014 00:07, Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabowski at kit.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I found an interesting fact about the flash player problem (151a8,a9):
>> If you manage to right click the menu entry 'About Adobe flash player'
>> while the video is loading, but before it plays (you have to be
>> fast...), the video will first crash, but a second tab opens and
>> shows the Adobe flash intro running. After that, close the Adobe
>> tab, and reload the video page. The video will run, and all
>> subsequent videos after will also be shown without crashes in
>> this instance of firefox (latest solaris flash 11.2.202.223) !
>>
>> This seems to hint to a threading issue with library load order,
>> I previously experimented a lot and got flash running randomly,
>> but not in a way to present a consistent workaround, but this time,
>> it seems to circumvent the problem always.
>>
>> The debugger loads the plugin-container with the libraries below when
>> it works, but loads these ones additionally when actually starting the
>> video:
>>
>> ....
>> Reading pango-basic-fc.so
>> Reading libcanberra-gtk.so.0.1.7
>> Reading libcanberra.so.0.2.4
>> Reading libgconf-2.so.4.1.5
>> Reading libORBit-2.so.0.1.0
>> Reading libltdl.so.3.1.4
>> Reading libcanberra-oss.so
>> Reading libvorbisfile.so.3.3.5
>> Reading libvorbis.so.0.4.6
>> Reading libogg.so.0.7.1
>> Reading libpixbufloader-xpm.so
>> (video shown)
>>
>>
>> So maybe there's something wrong in these compared
>> to a7, where flash used to work.
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> Libraries loaded before:
>> Reading plugin-container
>> Reading ld.so.1
>> Reading libxul.so
>> Reading libCrun.so.1
>> Reading libCstd.so.1
>> Reading libpthread.so.1
>> Reading libc.so.1
>> Reading libssl3.so
>> Reading libnss3.so
>> Reading libnssutil3.so
>> Reading libplc4.so
>> Reading libnspr4.so
>> Reading libthread.so.1
>> Reading librt.so.1
>> Reading libplds4.so
>> Reading libnsl.so.1
>> Reading libXrender.so.1
>> Reading libX11.so.4
>> Reading libXext.so.0
>> Reading libmozalloc.so
>> Reading libgobject-2.0.so.0.2800.8
>> Reading libglib-2.0.so.0.2800.8
>> Reading libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2200.1
>> Reading libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2200.1
>> Reading libcairo.so.2.11000.2
>> Reading libgio-2.0.so.0.2800.8
>> Reading libresolv.so.2
>> Reading libsocket.so.1
>> Reading libm.so.2
>> Reading libXt.so.4
>> Reading libdemangle.so.1
>> Reading libdl.so.1
>> Reading libgthread-2.0.so.0.2800.8
>> Reading UTF-8%UTF-16LE.so
>> Reading UTF-16LE%UTF-8.so
>> Reading libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2800.8
>> Reading libsmime3.so
>> Reading libmozsqlite3.so
>> Reading libdbus-1.so.3.4.3
>> Reading libatk-1.0.so.0.3209.1
>> Reading libfreetype.so.6
>> Reading libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.2200.1
>> Reading libfontconfig.so.1
>> Reading libpango-1.0.so.0.2800.4
>> Reading libmp.so.2
>> Reading libmd.so.1
>> Reading libXau.so.6
>> Reading libXdmcp.so.6
>> Reading libsecdb.so.1
>> Reading libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.2800.4
>> Reading libXcomposite.so.1
>> Reading libXdamage.so.1
>> Reading libXfixes.so.1
>> Reading libpng14.so.14.12.0
>> Reading libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.2800.4
>> Reading libtsol.so.2
>> Reading libXinerama.so.1
>> Reading libXi.so.5
>> Reading libXrandr.so.2
>> Reading libXcursor.so.1
>> Reading libpixman-1.so.0
>> Reading libz.so.1
>> Reading libSM.so.6
>> Reading libICE.so.6
>> Reading libbsm.so.1
>> Reading libbz2.so.1
>> Reading libexpat.so.1.6.0
>> Reading libinetutil.so.1
>> Reading libscf.so.1
>> Reading libuutil.so.1
>> Reading libgen.so.1
>> Reading libnvpair.so.1
>> Reading libsmbios.so.1
>> Reading xlcUTF8Load.so.2
>> Reading libclearlooks.so
>> Reading libcanberra-gtk-module.so
>> Reading libflashplayer.so
>> Reading libpangoxft-1.0.so.0.2800.4
>> Reading libpangox-1.0.so.0.2800.4
>> Reading libXft.so.2
>> Reading libsoftokn3.so
>> Reading libnssdbm3.so
>> Reading libfreebl3.so
>> Reading libkstat.so.1
>> ... (here the libraries for the video will load)
>>
>>
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