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Poohblah

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Registered: 2014-06-11

Posts: 11

flashplugin-11.2.202.378-1 causes problems in Firefox browser

Recently (I believe yesterday, June 10), pacman upgraded flashplugin from 11.2.202.359 to 11.2.202.378. The new flashplugin package has been causing problems for me. For instance, while viewing http://www.wired.com/2014/06/binge-guid … galactica/ , which has several embedded YouTube Flash video players, scrolling was quite slow and very chunky.  I have noticed this problem on many web pages with embedded Flash players. Some pages, such as https://play.spotify.com/ , claimed that there was no flash plugin installed at all and that I would need to install Flash in order to view the page.  I have fixed flash-related problems by rolling back to the previous version of flashplugin.  I am using the lastest firefox package, 30.0-1.

I'm not sure if I should submit a bugreport, since things like this tend to depend on a lot of local factors including video card, graphics drivers, websites and web applications, web browser preferences, other web browser plugins, etc. etc., and since I don't have any hard information such as memory usage reports, execeptions from running code, stack traces, etc.

Last edited by Poohblah (2014-06-11 18:15:22)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: flashplugin-11.2.202.378-1 causes problems in Firefox browser

$ grep flashplugin /var/log/pacman.log  | tail -n1
[2014-06-11 17:27] [PACMAN] upgraded flashplugin (11.2.202.359-1 -> 11.2.202.378-1)

What other websites apart from https://play.spotify.com/ claimed that you don't have flash installed?
You can use e.g. htop to see what happens with RAM and CPU when you scroll through http://www.wired.com/2014/06/binge-guid … galactica/

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,727

Re: flashplugin-11.2.202.378-1 causes problems in Firefox browser

Eh, nevermind. Didn't read well enough.

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-06-12 01:16:00)

stevenhoneyman

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From: England

Registered: 2014-05-25

Posts: 241

Re: flashplugin-11.2.202.378-1 causes problems in Firefox browser

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=182805 related maybe?

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