[Bug 198541] www/linux-c6-flashplugin11 does not work with firefox 36 or opera 12

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198541

Thomas Zander <riggs at FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |riggs at FreeBSD.org
           Severity|Affects Only Me             |Affects Many People

--- Comment #2 from Thomas Zander <riggs at FreeBSD.org> ---
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.

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