Firefox and Adobe Flash Player

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On 01/25/2008 08:35 PM, Alex Janssen wrote:

> Ok.  I can do that.  Thanks for telling me about that page.  But, I'd 
> still like to know how to fix the display of Flash pages(see 
> www.toyota.com).  They work fine on all my Windows installations of 
> Firefox with Flash, but not on any Linux installations of Firefox with 
> Flash.  Some people on this list have reported that the citicards.com 
> page displays properly on their linux installations  I need to figure 
> out what the difference is between their installs and mine.  I have a 
> test installation on a desktop at work (talked them into it) and the 
> sales person using it is complaining that certain pages they used to go 
> to on their old windows box do not show up properly in FF on Linux.  So 
> I'm always carrying a handkerchief to wipe egg from my face when I see 
> them.  I'm hoping their patience doesn't run out before I get things 
> fixed.  I was really hoping to replace old Windows boxes with Linux.  
> Everything else seems to be pretty satisfactory, but I keep stubbing my 
> toe on this Firefox - Flash display thing.
> 
> 

The Toyota problem was discussed here last September (Subject: Firefox
on Ubuntu displays different from Firefox on WinXP). The problem is on
Adobe's side & Toyota hasn't taken any initiative in fixing their
website. See:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/122951

You'll see from that thread that even Adobe's own website is creating
problems. Go to http://adobe.com and scroll along the dropdown menus
with flash turned on. Don't click on them, just scroll your mouse across
them (Home Solutions Products etc). You'll see that their flash is on
top of the menu dropdowns and hides the dropdown information. Now visit
the site with flash turned off & you'll see that the dropdown menus work
just fine.