Firefox 4 Flash Issues [SOLVED]

Evanhuang · 2011-03-27 19:23:44

After updating my Firefox from 3.6 to 4.0 yesterday my flash started having issues in some cases. Youtube videos play just fine, but selection titles (for a lack of a better way to describe it) on sites such as NHL.com and Hulu.com aren't displaying properly for me (they display, but when you highlight over them the frame goes gray and revers back to its original state after a couple of seconds. My terminal shows these errors when on a website with the flash errors:

*** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 (<unknown variable>) in NPN_GetValue()

I searched this error but only came up with solutions for old flash problems (for both Firefox and Chromium), I tried some that I thought might work but to no avail. To this point I have reinstalled firefox4, nspluginwrapper, and flash-plugin and saw no change. It should also be noted that the same websites display perfectly fine in Chromium so I am assuming this is a firefox issue. Apologies if this is posted in the incorrect section, I am very new and still learning Arch. If you need any additionally screenshots, logs, etc I will be happy to provide.

Last edited by Evanhuang (2011-04-03 16:44:27)

Evanhuang · 2011-03-27 23:27:07

I have an update. I have been doing a little bit of looking, and while the flash loads properly on Chromium, it still displays the same error in the terminal, that being
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 (<unknown variable>) in NPN_GetValue()

That being the case, I am at a total loss as to how to get it working or what to even be looking for.

Haptic · 2011-03-27 23:30:16

If you want, you can get the prerelease flash plugin from the AUR which is working fine for me with Firefox4.

I have no idea what your error messages mean.

Last edited by Haptic (2011-03-27 23:30:35)

Evanhuang · 2011-03-28 00:13:06

I have been messing around with some settings and my most recent change was to remove my mozilla profile settings by mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.bak and then restarted firefox and am getting a new error:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32]

To me, it looks like Mozilla is trying to load the 64 bit rather than the 32 bit flashplugin as it is going for /usr/lib/ rather than /usr/lib32/

Right now I'm at a total loss for which file to edit to correct this problem, going to the google. Hoping that this will fix my problem. I'm guessing when Firefox 4 did the update it changed that setting.

zoryfl · 2011-03-30 20:08:46

I'm experiencing the same problem as you, Evanhuang, youtube vids work perfect but things like nrj.com webradio and such flicker just as you described above.
I installed the flashplugin from the multilib repo, reinstalled and restarted firefox but didn't change anything.

Any hint on how to fix this issue is appreciated!

Evanhuang · 2011-03-31 21:02:41

zoryfl wrote:

I'm experiencing the same problem as you, Evanhuang, youtube vids work perfect but things like nrj.com webradio and such flicker just as you described above.
I installed the flashplugin from the multilib repo, reinstalled and restarted firefox but didn't change anything.
Any hint on how to fix this issue is appreciated!

I haven't had any progress yet. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling firefox and dependencies, and that dosen't seem to be the issue. I've been talking to friends and they aren't having similar issues though, so it must be some other factor playing on it.

Sadface · 2011-03-31 21:39:43

Just adding my 0.02€ here by confirming everything here. Flash is a _mess_ on firefox 4 right now (and the bin32-flashplugin-beta
doesn't help either).

I am happy if a flash instance does NOT crash before actually loading and even happier if I can watch a video without at least one
crash as it's playing. Also the weird rectangles going black where they should update the rendered image.

Chromium has none of these issues.

EDIT: I was able to fix the crashing part by disabling hardware acceleration: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 34#p899434

Last edited by Sadface (2011-03-31 21:57:19)

Kalinda · 2011-04-01 13:52:39

I had the same issue, but I resolved it by installing the flashplugin pre-release package in the archlinuxfr repo, which is 64bit. So I guess that will work fine for me for now and hopefully I won't have anymore problems.

Evanhuang · 2011-04-03 05:44:32

Kalinda wrote:

I had the same issue, but I resolved it by installing the flashplugin pre-release package in the archlinuxfr repo, which is 64bit. So I guess that will work fine for me for now and hopefully I won't have anymore problems.

This worked for me! It started causing some issues with my Chromium (it would freeze up and crash), but my original intention was to make it so that I could use firefox again, and in that sense it was a success. Thanks for the helpful tip!

G0d's-servant · 2011-04-19 22:28:44

i so have this problem (don't play movie in youtube and other).
is no other way for solve it. since when i want install "flashplugin-prerelease" with yaourt received:

[root@myhost tux]# yaourt flashplugin-prerelease
1 aur/flashplugin-prerelease 10.3.162.29-2 (810)
    Adobe Flash Player Square
2 aur/flashplugin-prerelease-debug 10.1.53.60-1 (3)
    Adobe Flash Player Prerelease Debug Build
3 aur/flashplugin-prerelease32 11.0.0.60-2 (14)
    Adobe Flash Player Incubator
4 aur/lib32-flashplugin-prerelease 11.0.0.60-1 (9)
    Adobe Flash Player for 32-bit Mozilla-based browsers (Incubator series)
==> Enter n° of packages to be installed (ex: 1 2 3 or 1-3)
==> -------------------------------------------------------
==>

here entered 1. Next:

==> 1


==> Downloading flashplugin-prerelease PKGBUILD from AUR...
x PKGBUILD

Comment by: Madek on Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:48:56 +0000
thanks

Comment by: anish on Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:57:03 +0000
@proton252 This is the 64bit square release. Please double check what package you wanted to flag as out of date.

Comment by: Phlogiston on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:34:26 +0000
Anyone knows why I get this with packer?

packer -S flashplugin-prerelease                                                                                                          
error: failed to prepare transaction (package architecture is not valid)                                                                                         
:: package flashplugin-prerelease-10.3.180.65-1-i686 does not have a valid architecture             

With makepkg it works...

Comment by: rubenvb on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:14:30 +0000
@Phlogiston: this AUR package is x86_64 only. so packer seems to give your correct error information. This package may be more relevant (or the one linked in the first comment at the time of writing): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47038

Comment by: anish on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:07:48 +0000
actually, Phlogiston, you want this package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47230 10.3.180.65 is the beta, not the prerelease.

Comment by: jcw122 on Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:43:12 +0000
@rebenvb I'm getting the same error as Phogiston and I AM on an x86_64 system.

First Submitted: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:07:41 +0000
flashplugin-prerelease 10.3.162.29-2 
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------
==>

here since give "( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )" message and can't "Edit PKGBUILD" i abort to continu. i use firefox 4 and "flashplugin-10.2.159.1-2-i686".

zoryfl · 2011-04-20 05:14:31

Have you tried installing the prerelease from the archlinuxfr repo? That's how it worked for me, without any further issues.

the sad clown · 2011-04-20 05:19:56

G0d's-servant wrote:

i so have this problem (don't play movie in youtube and other).
is no other way for solve it. since when i want install "flashplugin-prerelease" with yaourt received:
...
here since give "( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )" message and can't "Edit PKGBUILD" i abort to continu. i use firefox 4 and "flashplugin-10.2.159.1-2-i686".

Have you tried just manually downloading andbuilding it from AUR? It looks like yaourt is doing something weird, but I don't use yaourt, so I wouldn't be able to help you with it. I'm using the flashplugin-prerelease from AUR and am not having any problems with it at all.

Last edited by the sad clown (2011-04-20 05:21:04)

G0d's-servant · 2011-04-20 09:03:25

Thank, but I how download "flashplugin-prerelease 10.3.162.29-2" from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072 and install it?

x33a · 2011-04-20 12:34:08

G0d's-servant wrote:

Thank, but I how download "flashplugin-prerelease 10.3.162.29-2" from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072 and install it?

You'll need a aur helper program such as yaourt, packer etc.

Take a look here for help with AUR.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AU … Guidelines

G0d's-servant · 2011-04-20 14:44:41

I download "Tarball" and "PKGBUILD " of "flashplugin-prerelease 10.3.162.29-2" and I then extracted "flashplugin-prerelease.tar.gz" then with current user entered "makepak -s ":

[tux@myhost flashplugin-aur]$ makepak -s 

Slackware package maker, version 1.1-CheckInstall
dirname: invalid option -- 's'
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
basename: invalid option -- 's'
Try `basename --help' for more information.

Searching for symbolic links:
/usr/sbin/makepak: line 107: filesize: command not found

Making symbolic link creation script:

/usr/sbin/makepak: line 113: filesize: command not found

Removing symbolic links:

Creating your new ./install/doinst.sh...


Creating tar file .tgz.tar...

/usr/sbin/makepak: line 170: -cvf: command not found
WARNING: zero length file ./install/doinst.sh

Gzipping .tgz.tar...
gzip: .tgz.tar: No such file or directory

Renaming .tgz.tar.gz to ...
mv: missing destination file operand after `.tgz.tar.gz'
Try `mv --help' for more information.

Moving  to ...
mv: missing file operand
Try `mv --help' for more information.

Package creation complete.

again done with root user:

[root@myhost flashplugin-aur]# makepkg --asroot -s
==> ERROR: flashplugin-prerelease is not available for the 'i686' architecture.
    Note that many packages may need a line added to their PKGBUILD
    such as arch=('i686').

the top message mean this package not available for i686 architecture? no way?

igndenok · 2011-04-20 16:18:38

For i686 use flashplugin-prerelease32.

Last edited by igndenok (2011-04-20 16:19:14)

G0d's-servant · 2011-04-20 17:13:50

[root@myhost flashplugin-aur]# makepkg --asroot -s
==> Making package: flashplugin-prerelease32 11.0.0.60-2 (Thu Apr 21 00:59:48 IRDT 2011)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading flashplayer_inc_debug_lin_022711.tar.gz...
--2011-04-21 00:59:48--  http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/incubator/flashplayer_inc_debug_lin_022711.tar.gz
Resolving download.macromedia.com... 95.100.35.191
Connecting to download.macromedia.com|95.100.35.191|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2011-04-21 00:59:48 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading flashplayer_inc_debug_lin_022711.tar.gz
    Aborting...

Excuse me, my country not allowing download form macromedia, adobe and etc.we are boycott. no any way?
Edit: I've raised your request for this package in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 52#p922152

Last edited by G0d's-servant (2011-04-21 23:24:26)

x33a · 2011-04-21 13:35:40

G0d's-servant wrote:

[root@myhost flashplugin-aur]# makepkg --asroot -s
==> Making package: flashplugin-prerelease32 11.0.0.60-2 (Thu Apr 21 00:59:48 IRDT 2011)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading flashplayer_inc_debug_lin_022711.tar.gz...
--2011-04-21 00:59:48--  http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/incubator/flashplayer_inc_debug_lin_022711.tar.gz
Resolving download.macromedia.com... 95.100.35.191
Connecting to download.macromedia.com|95.100.35.191|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2011-04-21 00:59:48 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading flashplayer_inc_debug_lin_022711.tar.gz
    Aborting...

Excuse me, my country not allowing download form macromedia, adobe and etc.we are boycott. no any way?

I think you should create a new thread for your issue. If you are indeed unable to download flash from adobe, then we can upload it for you somewhere else, if needed, and if it isn't against the forum rules.

tomk · 2011-04-22 08:53:36

Uhmmm... it is against forum rules to violate license terms and conditions, and that's what you would be doing if you made flash available from any source other than adobe's official one.

G0d's-servant · 2011-05-02 20:59:55

now I have flashplugin-prerelease32 and installed it, but can't see movies on youtube and etc yet.
Edit: with Opera isn't no problem.

Last edited by G0d's-servant (2011-05-03 00:18:33)

G0d's-servant · 2011-07-09 06:00:41

now i have firefox5 and flashplugin 10.3.181.34-1, but stil can't see movies in youtue.com and etc

Last edited by G0d's-servant (2011-07-09 06:03:38)

skottish · 2011-07-10 18:32:29

G0d's-servant wrote:

now i have firefox5 and flashplugin 10.3.181.34-1, but stil can't see movies in youtue.com and etc

If you're being blocked by the government control of the people of Iran, this isn't where to go for advice. Arch, as a rule, is not involved in political stuff. As tomk pointed out before, the solutions that were pointed out in this thread before are not appropriate here.

Last edited by skottish (2011-07-10 18:33:12)

Snowman · 2011-07-10 23:06:55

You could try an open-source flash player like gnash instead of Adobe's one.

G0d's-servant · 2011-07-15 02:04:46

skottish wrote:

G0d's-servant wrote:
now i have firefox5 and flashplugin 10.3.181.34-1, but stil can't see movies in youtue.com and etc
If you're being blocked by the government control of the people of Iran, this isn't where to go for advice. Arch, as a rule, is not involved in political stuff. As tomk pointed out before, the solutions that were pointed out in this thread before are not appropriate here.

any forum manager can be remove my post and . . . is not problem from my side

G0d's-servant · 2011-07-15 02:19:57

Snowman wrote:

You could try an open-source flash player like gnash instead of Adobe's one.

i don't think the problem is flash. since i can see flash-movie with opera and chrome. i tryed with both gnash and flashplugin.

Last edited by G0d's-servant (2011-07-15 02:22:32)

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