[OpenIndiana-discuss] Workaround for Flash issue

Fri Jan 24 11:33:24 UTC 2014

Hi all,

I can confirm (using firefox opensolaris package from
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/26.0/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/) 
on my /hipster system with one TAB open on 
"http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/" page.

Just, worth mentioning: first make sure that plugin is activated...

Tested few different video sources ... It looks like it is really working!

Big thanks to Mr. Grabowski

Regards.

On 01/24/14 12:08 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> 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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