trying to view flash animations, e.g. on youtube or friv.com does not produce anything. Thinkpad T61p laptop 10.1-STABLE #23 r277808 amd64 nvidia-driver-340-340.76 $ pkg info -xo flash firef opera linux linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.442 www/linux-c6-flashplugin11 firefox-36.0.1,1 www/firefox opera-12.16_5 www/opera opera-linuxplugins-12.16 www/opera-linuxplugins linux-c6-atk-1.30.0 accessibility/linux-c6-atk linux-c6-cairo-1.8.8_1 graphics/linux-c6-cairo linux-c6-cyrus-sasl2-2.1.23_1 security/linux-c6-cyrus-sasl2 linux-c6-expat-2.0.1_1 textproc/linux-c6-expat linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.442 www/linux-c6-flashplugin11 linux-c6-fontconfig-2.8.0_1 x11-fonts/linux-c6-fontconfig linux-c6-gdk-pixbuf2-2.24.1 graphics/linux-c6-gdk-pixbuf2 linux-c6-gtk2-2.24.23_1 x11-toolkits/linux-c6-gtk2 linux-c6-jpeg-1.2.1_1 graphics/linux-c6-jpeg linux-c6-nspr-4.10.6 devel/linux-c6-nspr linux-c6-nss-3.16.1 security/linux-c6-nss linux-c6-openldap-2.4.39 net/linux-c6-openldap linux-c6-openssl-compat-0.9.8e_1 security/linux-c6-openssl-compat linux-c6-pango-1.28.1_1 x11-toolkits/linux-c6-pango linux-c6-png-1.2.49_1 graphics/linux-c6-png linux-c6-sqlite-3.6.20_1 databases/linux-c6-sqlite3 linux-c6-tiff-3.9.4_1 graphics/linux-c6-tiff linux-c6-xorg-libs-7.4_1 x11/linux-c6-xorg-libs linux_base-c6-6.6_3 emulators/linux_base-c6 opera-linuxplugins-12.16 www/opera-linuxplugins Run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and nspluginwrapper -v -a -u multiple times $ grep linux /etc/sysctl.conf sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.16.18 $ sysctl -a | grep "compat.linux\." <118>sysctl: unknown oid 'sysctl compat.linux.osrelease' at line 11: No such file or directory compat.linux.osname: Linux compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.18 compat.linux.oss_version: 198144
Can you please update Flash to linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.451? I've reproduced the bug of not seeing Flash in about:plugins after upgrading Firefox to version 36.0.1,1, and it was fixed on my machine by 1. reinstall flashplugin11 (or, in your case, updating it) 2. nspluginwrapper -a -v -i 3. quit all currently running firefox instances.
This issue definitely does affect quite some people. There has been a fruitless discussion on the mailing lists a while ago, and I am unhappy to confirm that this problem continues to exist since FF36. However, I don't think flash support is totally broken, but it does not fully work either. Canonical example: Adobe's flash test site at http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ has two embedded flash objects: 1) Immediately below the headline "Adobe flash player", some bouncing cube is displayed (when flash works). 2) Below the flash object 1) there is "Version Information" which seems to read the version of the installed flash plugin and then continues to statically display this version number. What I observe here: Upon loading the page, the bouncing cube is displayed and the version information is displayed as well ("You have version 11,2,202,457 installed", as of today). At first, this looks like flash is fine. But after about 5 seconds, the bouncing cube flash object dies and only the white background is visible in the area where the flash object 1) is supposed to be. The static flash object 2) continues to be active; I can right-click on the object an open "Global settings" which brings me to the flash plugin settings, as expected. A right click on the white area where object 1) was before, however, brings up only firefox's standard menu for right clicks. This implies that object 1) has died after the initial cube display while object 2) displaying merely static text continues to run. I could confirm that this has nothing to do with other plugins or extensions. I created a fresh, empty firefox profile just for testing this; behaviour is exactly identical. I am happy to test patches if there is any idea what to try next.
Is this still relevant with the updated flashplugin11?
(In reply to Johannes Jost Meixner from comment #3) Yes, exactly the same thing, no change. Installed packages: firefox-38.0.1,1 linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.460 The Adobe page on http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ confirms the version number, but, as described in an earlier comment, the bouncing cube object dies whereas the static text ist displayed, indicating "You have version 11,2,202,460 installed"
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Is this still a problem?
@Reporter, please re-open this issue with additional (updated) details to reproduce if the issue is still reproducible