From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 8 19:21:00 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFD5206 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2013 19:21:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell0.rawbw.com (shell0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1992C28 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2013 19:20:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.yuri.org (stunnel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rA8JKwuK041217 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2013 11:20:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Message-ID: <527D399A.7050602@rawbw.com> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:20:58 -0800 From: Yuri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" Subject: Caveat in flash player: it fails in firefox after start (linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.310) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 19:21:00 -0000 I have one machine on which flash fails to work when firefox browser is just started and some youtube video is opened. It displays this message in white and blue colors: * **/The Adobe Flash Player or an HTML5 supported browser is required for video playback.// //Get the latest Flash Player// //Learn more about upgrading to an HTML5 browser/* It looks like the flash itself decides it has the wrong version and asks to update. Reloading the page doesn't help. However, killing all processes with the name npviewer.bin and then reloading the page helps. On the other machines I also occasionally observed the similar but not the same problem when browser says that plugin isn't available after brower is launched. But later, after refresh, it works. And this looks like the different issue. The procedure from handbook was followed to the word. There are no stray files with the names libflash*so* anywhere. So I had to create a special hotkey to 'killall npviewer.bin' as a workaround. Anybody knows why this happens and what is the better fix? I know flashplugin itself and nspluginwrapper are crappy pieces of software, but so many sites heavily rely on flash anyway. Yuri