Bug 9984 - firefox and flash issue when scrolling the page (visual artifacts)
Summary: firefox and flash issue when scrolling the page (visual artifacts)
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: All Packagers
QA Contact:
URL: http://andybiker.comli.com
Whiteboard: MGA4TOO, MGA3TOO
Keywords:
: 11098 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-05-05 08:17 CEST by Andrew S
Modified: 2020-07-26 19:30 CEST (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Andrew S 2013-05-05 08:17:43 CEST
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox ESR 17.0.5
flash-player plugin (non-free) v11.2.202.280

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch firefox with the above weblink
2. Shrink window height so you need to scroll down
3. check clock in menu when it scrolls off the screen

Above clock working on Opera, Chromium-browser and Konqueror (Epiphany/Web on Gnome doesn't see flash player)


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2013-05-05 12:06:22 CEST
I don't see that's wrong, and it see to be working here

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 2 David Walser 2013-05-05 17:25:18 CEST
Confirmed in VirtualBox.  You see the visual artifacts when you scroll it such that the clock is partially shown.  If you have just resized the window, the clock display gets totally corrupted.  Otherwise, it's just some minor background color issues.  If I remember, I'll try to test it at work on real hardware.  In the past, Flash issues have been caused by xorg video module issues.

CC: (none) => luigiwalser

Comment 3 David Walser 2013-05-07 17:10:50 CEST
I can't access your site from work, I just get Connection Timed Out.

Someone else will have to check this on real hardware for now.
Comment 4 Donald 2013-05-07 17:25:25 CEST
I have this too, only in ff, rekonq runs fine.

This on a Nvidia chip using nouveau.

CC: (none) => watersnowrock

David Walser 2013-05-07 22:48:27 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 5 Malo Deniélou 2013-05-12 22:14:18 CEST
I confirm this with firefox.
I also see a similar thing with any video of www.dailymotion.com

CC: (none) => pierre-malo.denielou

Comment 6 Malo Deniélou 2013-05-12 22:41:41 CEST
I can see the clock fine with my laptop (intel graphics) running live pre-final mga3. It however fails with my desktop running up-to-date cauldron and nvidia hw.
The dailymotion pb (check http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22x7l_beethoven-string-quartet-op-18-no-1_music for example) happens with both hw and firefox.
Comment 7 David Walser 2013-05-12 23:02:58 CEST
On that dailymotion page if the video is partially scrolled out of the window I lose it (goes white) and the dailymotion thing right above the list of suggestions gets all flickery.  This is in VirtualBox.  Hopefully I can reach this site at work to test it on ati.
Comment 8 Donald 2013-05-13 15:30:33 CEST
Correction to my comment - it was using the nvidia driver.
Comment 9 David Walser 2013-05-13 18:08:57 CEST
(In reply to David Walser from comment #7)
> On that dailymotion page if the video is partially scrolled out of the
> window I lose it (goes white) and the dailymotion thing right above the list
> of suggestions gets all flickery.  This is in VirtualBox.  Hopefully I can
> reach this site at work to test it on ati.

At work on ati (open source Xorg module) I get no artifacts in the ad above the suggestions lists.  For the Beethoven video, when it's partially scrolled out it goes black and white (like TV used to be), but I can still see it fine.
Adrien D 2013-08-17 23:59:00 CEST

CC: (none) => aaaaadrien_d

Comment 10 Christian Müller 2013-08-18 16:42:00 CEST
That sounds familiar to me. I found many flash videos not working in firefox (e.g. dailymotion, as mentioned above) since I upgraded to Mageia3 (Screen flickering, or black&white, or much too dark, or complete noisy). All this videos work in Konqueror or Opera, and they even work if you use Firefox that's downloaded directly from mozilla.org (17.0.8esr or 23.0 x64). So to me it seems to be an issue of the mga-built FF, or the libs it uses.

CC: (none) => chmos

Comment 11 Malo Deniélou 2013-08-18 16:51:30 CEST
Setting the bug to Mageia 3.

Version: Cauldron => 3

Comment 12 David Walser 2013-08-30 23:12:30 CEST
*** Bug 11098 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => kristoffer.grundstrom1983

Comment 13 Christian Müller 2013-12-23 18:33:16 CET
This bug still persist in Mageia 4b2.
David Walser 2013-12-23 18:38:04 CET

Version: 3 => Cauldron
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA3TOO

Comment 14 Samuel Verschelde 2015-04-23 12:39:26 CEST
Is still bug still valid in Mageia 4 fully updated? Is it valid in latest cauldron too? (Mageia 5 RC will be available soon to test).

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Samuel Verschelde 2015-04-23 12:39:52 CEST

Summary: firefox and flash issue when scrolling the page - check my clock => firefox and flash issue when scrolling the page (visual artifacts)

Samuel Verschelde 2015-04-23 12:40:22 CEST

Source RPM: (none) => firefox

Comment 15 David Walser 2015-04-23 12:44:53 CEST
Will have to check, but I am pretty certain firefox is not the cause of it.

Source RPM: firefox => (none)

Comment 16 Samuel Verschelde 2015-04-23 13:35:11 CEST
Maybe not the root cause, but until we know better, it's the starting point. Even firefox from mozilla.org doesn't demonstrate the issue (comment #10). I'd prefer we had something in the RPM package field, it'll help visualizing bugs per domain in the future.
Comment 17 David Walser 2015-04-23 13:45:53 CEST
I'd prefer not to have an incorrect package in the field, as that's not helpful at all.  When the issue first appeared, I had reason to believe (don't remember what it was) that x11-server was the cause and had planned to bisect it, but never had time.  Anyway, I'll check this weekend to see if I can still reproduce it.
Comment 18 Samuel Verschelde 2015-04-23 14:20:06 CEST
is bug 12136 a duplicate?
Comment 19 David Walser 2015-04-23 14:25:24 CEST
(In reply to Samuel VERSCHELDE from comment #18)
> is bug 12136 a duplicate?

It doesn't sound like it.  This bug only happens when the flash applet is partially scrolled off-screen.
Comment 20 Christian Müller 2015-04-26 17:59:37 CEST
Still valid in Mageia 5b3: Check out http://www.vox.de/cms/sendungen/auto-mobil/autodoktoren-videos.html and play one of the episodes. Binary ff 31esr from mozilla works, mga-package not (only sound, no or flickering video).
Comment 21 David Walser 2015-05-01 00:46:26 CEST
Sorry for the delay.  Didn't have much time last weekend and had some issues on my VM, but I was able to confirm the issue in Cauldron there, as well as on a physical machine at work just now.

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Whiteboard: MGA3TOO => MGA4TOO, MGA3TOO

Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-15 22:44:28 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Adrien D 2016-10-15 22:45:25 CEST

CC: ghbdtn => (none)

Comment 22 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2020-07-26 19:30:48 CEST
This looks like a very old issue, and Flash is reaching EOL in a few months -> OLD.

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED


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