Comment 27 for bug 968759

OK. Thanx - that (gnash) restored YouTube to my Firefox browser, however, CBC Radio is still not streaming in Firefox. Works fine on Google Chrome, but not Firefox or Opera.

----- Original Message -----
From: ".cobnet" <email address hidden>
Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:06 pm
Subject: [Bug 968759] Re: adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.228-0lucid1freezes firefox display - crashes some webkit programs (depends on cpu)
To: <email address hidden>

> My parents have the same problem on their "AMD Athlon(tm) XP
> 2400+". At
> one moment (after an update I guess), the black frame (where eg. the
> Youtube video should be) changed to a white frame. But of course
> white,black or some other colour: it didn't work :-(.
>
> Workaround that I used on my parents pc: install browser-plugin-gnash.
> At the moment everything seems to work.
>
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>
> Title:
>   adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.228-0lucid1freezes firefox
> display -
>   crashes some webkit programs (depends on cpu)
>
> Status in “adobe-flashplugin” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   Using Firefox 11.0 and the Adobe's Shockwave Flash
> 11.1.202.228 in youtube. Youtube and all flash sites shows a
> black box instead of the player. It works fine on Google Chrome.
>   i'm reinstall this package and nothing happend.
>
>   im using Ubuntu lucid 10.04.3 Adobe-flashplugin
> 11.2.202.228-0lucid1
>   adobe-flash-properties-gtk works fine.
>
>   This package is not stable.
>   -
>   This is apparently caused by the use of SSE2 instructions
> in new versions of adobe flash binaries, but only on older CPU's
> not implementing SSE2. There is an upstream bug reported for
> this: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3161034
>
>   Note that this code is binary only outside of Adobe.
>
>   Where lernid, and apparently epiphany-browser use webkit
> they don't
>   catch SIGILL. Both crash  and close with the message
> "Illegal  Instruction" sent to the console.
>
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