Flash inconsistency 9.10

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:01:21 -0000, Nigel Ridley
> > <nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:
> >> Running 9.10 from a fresh install.
> >> 
> >> The page at:
> >> http://www.rapala.com/how2tv/ loads OK and the intro flash
> >> movie plays OK. There is a few icons
> >> under the player window to choose a different lure. There is
> >> also an icon to choose from a
> >> complete list. There should be a slider bar under the visible
> >> icons which allows you to see and
> >> choose other icons.
> >> 
> >> Here's the annoying bit. Firefox (3.6) and Opera will not show
> >> anything in the pop-up window
> >> (after clicking on the 'Video Playlist' icon/button) which
> >> should show a list of choices. The
> >> slider bar under the icons doesn't show.
> >> However in Konqueror everything works as expected. What gives?
> >> I have no problem with any other
> >> Flash videos.
> >> 
> >> Any ideas?
> > 
> > As far as me and my angling mates knew that page only worked
> > properly with IE, so, I assume, Konqueror must be able to cope
> > with one of IEs quirks. I did read on a forum, somewhere, that
> > a few people had informed Rapala though not a lot seems to have
> > come of this. Not much help I know but, you’re not the only one
> > suffering :-/
> 
> It it quite strange as I used to be able to watch them all, but I
> can't remember if it was before I did the fresh install of 9.10
> (I was using 9.04).
> My son has a GoS (Ubuntu 8.04 based) so I will try on that.

I think I read somewhere that flash inside firefox was affected by 
the clientside windows bug. You could try executing firefox with the 
GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS environment variable set to "1". You can do this 
inside a bash shell by executing:
GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 firefox
and using that firefox to try viewing the video.
I have no idea if this will work, but konqueror might be immune to 
the issue since it doesn't use GTK.

  --Reinhold