Misplaced youtube toolbar buttons (NPAPI flashplugin with Firefox)

amitk_iitm · 2014-06-11 17:36:15

Whenever I open a youtube video, the buttons on the toolbar of the player get sort of jumbled up, and give me this: http://imgur.com/SprXKao
I have tried searching it on internet (with lots of possible keywords), but no success.

The problem persists on latest Firefox (30.0-1; updated today) and flashplugin 11.2.202.378-1. It has been bugging me since the days of Firefox 28. I don't remember what started this.

Edit : This only happens on the first video I play on Firefox and goes away after reloading.
Everything works properly when I use HTML5 player or pepper-flash in chrome.

Am I the only one facing this issue?

Last edited by amitk_iitm (2014-06-12 15:54:38)

Andy_Crowd · 2014-06-11 19:13:57

It might be an audio/video codec,
Try with reinstalling

pacman -Syy
pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep ^gst) $(pacman -Qq | grep ^ffmpeg)

Are you using plugins for downloading/recording of videos/audio in firefox? Try to disable one by one to find if it is some of plugins that cause this issue.

Last edited by Andy_Crowd (2014-06-11 20:00:36)

amitk_iitm · 2014-06-12 03:03:05

Thanks for replying.
It's definitely not the plugins, because I've tried it on a new profile and problem was still there.

Reinstalling the codecs didn't work; the problem persists.

I got this while reinstalling gstreamer-good and gstreamer-good-plugins:

(gconftool-2:4330): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: No protocol specified
Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.

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(gconftool-2:4336): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: No protocol specified
Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.

karol · 2014-06-12 10:12:27

I'm not sure if related, but see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40807
Does this issue persist after rebooting?

amitk_iitm · 2014-06-12 10:25:22

Thanks for the reply, karol.

I haven't done a reboot since the reinstall of codecs as suggested by Andy_Crowd, if that's what you're suggesting. I'll check after I go back home.

If you're asking in general, yes, it's persistent after reboot. But it seems to occur only on the *first* video I open on youtube. A reload takes care of it usually, but it's still annoying. It works perfectly fine on HTML5 player of youtube, though. Do you think the bug is still related?

I'll give a shot to removing gst-vaapi anyway, and see how it works out.

amitk_iitm · 2014-06-12 15:50:27

Removed gst-vaapi and rebooted a couple of times. Couldn't fix it.

I prefer Firefox to Chrome due to its great extensions, and life is getting increasingly difficult to keep using Firefox on linux.
Guess I'm better off using HTML5 player instead of flashplugin. Thanks for suggestions, everyone!

Last edited by amitk_iitm (2014-06-12 15:51:09)

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Misplaced youtube toolbar buttons (NPAPI flashplugin with Firefox)

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