Adobe Flash only works sometimes

[Ed Greshko]

Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:40:28 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Amadeus W.M. <amadeus84 at verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:10:18 +0930, Tim wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lonni J Friedman:
>>>>>> I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin
>>>>>> installed.
>>>>>>  For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc).
>>>>>> However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all.
>>>>>> When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white
>>>>>> square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a
>>>>>> nasty error that I need to install Flash.
>>>>
>>>> Amadeus W.M.:
>>>>> I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it.
>>>>> CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any
>>>>> video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list.
>>>>> However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it
>>>>> eventually plays.
>>>> I get the same with youtube.  Often I'll get Flash appear to load,
>>>> then vanish, leaving a blank space, and several page reloads will be
>>>> needed to kick it back into working.  Occasionally, the failure will
>>>> happen part way into playing the file, with the same blank space
>>>> effect and reloading required.  Rarely I'll be told I don't have Flash
>>>> installed, but seeing as that happens so rarely, I've put that down to
>>>> stupid webmasters doing stupid tests.  And there are a few sites where
>>>> the player just never works.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps related:  If on youtube I ope another page in a background tab
>>>> while playing a video, the playing video will often abort (in the
>>>> above manner).
>>>>
>>>> I get the impression that the Flash player crashes really easily.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
>>>> 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
>>>>
>>>> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
>>>> read messages from the public lists.
>>> How about these sites:
>>>
>>> https://www.citicards.com/
>>> http://www.dbfx.com
>> I'm not sure what they're supposed to look like, but they seemed to work
>> ok.
>>
> 
> The citicards site flashes a blue login/password rectangle in the upper 
> left corner and some other things, then goes all blank. 

If you right click in the blank area you'd see that a "blank flash" is 
taking up the entire area.

> The dbfx site has an embedded flash that is supposed to show currency 
> prices in real time. That part I can't see, it's all blank. The rest of 
> the page is ok.

I believe that live currency is not flash.  Mine displays properly and when 
I right click there is no indication that it is flash.  When I check the 
page source (not that I'm any good at that) it looks like a java applet to me.

> 
> Incidentally, I uninstalled mozplugger and nspluginwrapper and cnn at 
> least seems to work better. Still having problems with these two sites 
> though. Might be some java thing?