[OpenIndiana-discuss] Workaround for Flash issue

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> Message du 24/01/14 01:08
> De : "Udo Grabowski (IMK)" 
> A : "openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org" 
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> Objet : [OpenIndiana-discuss] Workaround for Flash issue
> 
> 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...),

No need to be fast, you have all the time if you set plugins.click_to_play
preference (about:config) to True.



> 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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