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FS#44197 - [firefox] Flash video has still image when using Firefox 36.0.1 with multiple tabs

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gabor Zoka (gabor_zoka) - Sunday, 15 March 2015, 17:59 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Wednesday, 29 April 2015, 03:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Ionut Biru (wonder)
Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

I have done a "pacman -Syu" on 14 Mar 2014.

Then I observed that playing videos on www.youtube.com did not work. I had sound, but video showed only a still image. When I seeked, the video was updated to the image I seeked to, but when I tried to just play the video it remained still.

All this happened on firefox 36.0.1-1 Chrome did not exhibit this.

I also found that if I only have one Firefox window and one tab only, then it worked. As soon as I had multiple tabs, it stopped working.

I have downloaded to Firefox 36.0-1, which is what I used for a good week, it worked again.

Strictly speaking I downgraded 2 packages

[root@bud pkg]# pacman -U firefox-36.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz firefox-i18n-hu-36.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
loading packages...
warning: downgrading package firefox (36.0.1-1 => 36.0-1)
warning: downgrading package firefox-i18n-hu (36.0.1-1 => 36.0-1)

but I only use English locale. I used the latest Flashplugin in both cases: 11.2.202.451-1

I use fvwm-2.6.5-4 window manager. Not sure if this can contribute to this.

Some other people seemingly found something similar:

http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/2yemir/v36361_crashing_a_lot/cp926b3

I hope Mozilla will fix this. That reddit link mentions later that Firefox 37 looks better. Not sure, but if I am not alone with this, I think we should either upgrade further, or perhaps remove 36.0.1 and go back to 36.0. Just my 2 cents.

Cheers,

Gabor

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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Wednesday, 29 April 2015, 03:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Additional comments about closing:  OP: "Rarely I still have this issue, but usually works okay."
Comment by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Sunday, 15 March 2015, 18:31 GMT
Have you tried with all your add-ons disabled?
Does it work with html5 instead of flash?
Comment by Gabor Zoka (gabor_zoka) - Monday, 16 March 2015, 02:29 GMT
Thx for the tip. I have enabled HTML5 via https://www.youtube.com/html5 and problem went away. At least based on my limited testing.

Just FYI: 36.0 also exhibited the bug during the course of today, albeit it ever occurred once, where 36.0.1 is far worse.

I decided not to roll back to 36.0 now, but see if I can survive on HTML5. Thankfully mostly I use youtube for video.

I will keep the bug open for a couple of days just to find out if I am alone with it.
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Monday, 27 April 2015, 02:09 GMT
Is this still an issue in Firefox 37?

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