[SOLVED] - Firefox no longer displays flash (Black screen)

gps1539 · 2015-10-02 19:38:47

In the last couple of days firefox stopped being able to display flash content (VMware vCenter web-browser, videos etc.)

I have reinstalled freshplayer plugin, and downgrading firefox to 39.3 but still I see just black screen (or boxes). I remove freshplayer and followed to wiki to install the old flashplugin and still no luck.
Sites like http://www.codegeek.net/services/resour … test-page/ show I the plugin is installed (19.0.0)

Chrome is still working with flash

Anyone know if a recent update broke flash in firefox?

Last edited by gps1539 (2015-10-11 21:19:49)

byte · 2015-10-03 00:13:23

On i686 or x86_64?

gps1539 · 2015-10-03 01:51:09

x86_64

Malah · 2015-10-03 03:49:18

Hello, I have the same issue after an upgrade. I've try to downgrade mesa-11.0.2 and lib32-mesa-11.0.2 to 11.0.1 and now flash seems to work fine.

DarkCerberus · 2015-10-03 10:10:48

@gps1539 - if you don't know how to downgrade to a lower version number please see the Arch Linux wiki here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … g_packages - this will tell you how to downgrade, though I haven't had a problem so far with the latest version but since I use the nvidia drivers instead of mesa maybe that's why it works for me....

gps1539 · 2015-10-03 21:35:27

Malah wrote:

Hello, I have the same issue after an upgrade. I've try to downgrade mesa-11.0.2 and lib32-mesa-11.0.2 to 11.0.1 and now flash seems to work fine.

Excellent, that fixes it. I'll see if anyone has submitted a bug

gps1539 · 2015-10-03 21:47:17

DarkCerberus wrote:

@gps1539 - if you don't know how to downgrade to a lower version number please see the Arch Linux wiki here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … g_packages - this will tell you how to downgrade, though I haven't had a problem so far with the latest version but since I use the nvidia drivers instead of mesa maybe that's why it works for me....

It is fairly easy to downgrade a package. Find the package in your cache or download from the arch rollback machine, then install with pacman -U

To solve this issue I ran pacman -U lib32-mesa-11.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz and pacman -U mesa-11.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

More on downgrading @ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … g_packages

To stop them being updated edit /etc/pacman.conf, uncomment IgnorePkg and add the package to not be upgraded.

For this issue
IgnorePkg = lib32-mesa mesa

Remember to edit this out later when the issue is properly fixed

Malah · 2015-10-10 18:26:48

Hello, the issue seems to be corrected with mesa 11.0.3

keynone · 2015-10-11 10:47:06

I can confirm Malah's findings. Latest mesa update fixed this issue for me as well.

gps1539 · 2015-10-11 21:17:19

keynone wrote:

I can confirm Malah's findings. Latest mesa update fixed this issue for me as well.

Same here

Arch Linux

#1 2015-10-02 19:38:47

[SOLVED] - Firefox no longer displays flash (Black screen)

#2 2015-10-03 00:13:23

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#3 2015-10-03 01:51:09

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#4 2015-10-03 03:49:18

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#5 2015-10-03 10:10:48

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#6 2015-10-03 21:35:27

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