GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 700288
flash fullscreen gnome shell and firefox
Last modified: 2017-03-29 09:34:57 UTC
When I open a video flash on a web like youtube( on youtube this error doesn't appear), the flash video doesn't open to fullscreen and I need to reload the page, for see the movie on windowed mode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz6YgJkCYow&feature The video of the bug...
I can reproduce this with all flash video websites. For example: http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/mon-may-13-2013-j-j--abrams xorg-server 1.14.1, gnome-shell 3.8.1, mutter 3.8.1
I confirm with: flashplugin 11.2.202.285-1 gnome-shell 3.8.2-2 xorg-server 1.14.1-1 mutter 3.8.2-1
(In reply to comment #2) > I confirm with: > > flashplugin 11.2.202.285-1 > gnome-shell 3.8.2-2 > xorg-server 1.14.1-1 > mutter 3.8.2-1 I confirm this, also with the same packages installed. Only youtube fullscreen works as expected.
I also confirm with: flashplugin 11.2.202.285-1 gnome-shell 3.8.2-3 xorg-server 1.14.1-1 mutter 3.8.2-1 Works fine with same packages on KDE.
Same problem here: flashplugin 11.2.202.285-1 gnome-shell 3.8.2-4 xorg-server 1.14.1-1 mutter 3.8.2-2 @francesco : I noticed that you do not need to reload the Firefox page to have the video in windowed mode: moving/resizing Firefox window actually unfreezes it (for me).
Moving/resizing also "unfreezes" it for me.
I'm having the same problem. Only youtube works. flashplugin 11.2.202.291-1 gnome-shell 3.8.3-1 mutter 3.8.3-1 xorg-server 1.14.1-1
Fedora 19 Beta fullscreen only working for youtube.
Having the same problem on Archbang with both firefox and chromium, only youtube works. On openbox fullscreen works fine. gnome-shell 3.8.3.3 flashplugin 11.2.202.291-1 mutter 3.8.3-1 xorg-server 1.14.2-2
(In reply to comment #1) > I can reproduce this with all flash video websites. For example: > http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/mon-may-13-2013-j-j--abrams > > xorg-server 1.14.1, gnome-shell 3.8.1, mutter 3.8.1 I cannot reproduce this bug with YouTube any more. The fact that it now works with YouTube likely means that they did something to work around this issue.
I have fullscreen flash problems on most websites as well, but both youtube and hulu work fine.
I can confirm I have this problem too. Epiphany, Firefox, Opera and Chromium. Gnome 3.8.3 on Arch Linux
Using GnomeFlashback is a workaround: https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeFlashback. In Arch Linux, simply install gnome-flashback-session and select GnomeFlashback instead of Gnome in GDM during login.
+1 here. Fedora 19, gnome 3.8, firefox 22. Everything fully updated. Youtube works but I have HTML5 enabled there so it's not flash. I've seen a workaround with devilspie but I think I will simply ALT+TAB to the video window manually while it's been fixed.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 643740 ***
Are you sure it's the same bug? This particular problem with fullscreen flash only turned up with GNOME Shell 3.8. It used to work just fine earlier. bug 643740 seems to have been reported years ago for version 2.91, and has a completely different description.
Agreed, the other bug does not describe the problem I'm having.
Agreed. Bug 643740 is different and only concerns the overview.
Bug 643740 us a different issue, agreed.
Bug is still present in gnome-shell 3.8.4 on Archlinux. flashplugin 11.2.202.310-1 xorg-server 1.14.3-1 mutter 3.8.4-1 The first time you open a video outside Youtube and make it fullscreen, it works. The second time, it breaks fullscreen in all websites except Youtube.
This is still present in 3.10.x. I also found out something peculiar. When the "missing" full-screen video is active, alt-tabbing into the plugin-container, and then alt-^ing into the second window of the plugin-container, crashes the gnome shell. There is also something new about 3.10 for me. With 3.8, going into the shell overview would unfreeze the stuck windowed video for me. With 3.10 this is no longer possible. Reloading the page in Firefox also does not help. Instead, I have to restart the Firefox instance. mutter 3.10.1 xorg-server 1.14.3 flashplugin 11.2.202.301
I can confirm what Tobias says. Behaviour has gotten worse in GNOME 3.10.
Experiencing the same bug as @Michael and @Tobias.
Same issue with Gnome 3.10. Fullscreen works very first time (but not always) and after that it becomes completely broken - window just freezes, and it seems like flash window is shown, but is fully transparent, not allowing any clicks done to parent browser window to go through. Sound is playing. I found a little workaround: press 'win' key to go to window overview and then in apps bar I can see a 'generic' icon for flash window. If I select it, flash is brought to fullscreen. But my mom was really bitten by this bug, she didn't know what to do. I'd say this is more or less critical thing to fix considering flash is still quite popular on many websites.
Same as Dmitry. Ctrl+Alt+[Arrow] (i.e., switching workspaces; going down and back up) will recover control of frozen flash embed. flashplugin-11.2.202.310-1 xorg-server-1.14.4-1 mutter-3.10.1.1-1
+1
This Error still exists in: 3.12.1-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 26 11:17:02 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux GNOME Shell 3.10.2.1 mutter 3.10.2 Mozilla Firefox 25.0.1 Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
What do we have to do to get this confirmed? It seems like lots of people are experiencing this problem.
(In reply to comment #28) > What do we have to do to get this confirmed? Nothing. We just don't confirm bugs, e.g. a bug in state NEW is just as far from being fixed as a bug in state UNCONFIRMED.
Ah, OK. Thanks Florian.
Created attachment 267229 [details] [review] Proposed patch
bug isn't in gnome-shell. but in mutter.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 722743 ***
I have found this threat right now, but I have suffered this problem since more than a year ago. I know there isn't any solution yet, but how are you fighting it¿?
(In reply to comment #34) > I have found this threat right now, but I have suffered this problem since more > than a year ago. I know there isn't any solution yet, but how are you fighting > it¿? The proposed patch here in mutter fixes this.
The proposed patch is working for me as well. I haven't noticed any kind of adverse affects so far. It would be great to get this merged.
We also have shipped this patch on Endless for a few years with no adverse effect.
As per bug 722743, this is now fixed.