Closed Bug 1199404 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Running flash video with plugin-container whites out screen

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
43 Branch
Platform:
Unspecified
Windows
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: marty6001, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150827082734

Steps to reproduce:

When run running a flash video the screen whites out and the browser sometimes crashes when switching between tabs or minimizing then maximizing the browser. This is a recent glitch as a result of Bug 1194780 and forced use of plugin-container.exe. That process had previously been disabled so I'm unaware of when exactly the glitch first appeared. However, on 38ESR running plugin-container with Flash I do not experience similar problems.

A youtube screenshot after switching tabs with a running flash video with the latest version NPSWF32_18_0_0_232.dll using a new profile, no addons and HTLM5 disabled:

http://postimg.org/image/5ca1dnci7/

This occurs on all sites that still utilize Flash such as Daily Motion in Windows 7 and XP. Occasionally you may need to switch tabs back and forth several times before noticing it.
OS: Unspecified → Windows
That sounds like a driver-related issue, can you provide information about your hardware type and graphics driver version?
Flags: needinfo?(marty6001)
(In reply to Eric Ziegenhorn :ericz from comment #1)
> That sounds like a driver-related issue, can you provide information about
> your hardware type and graphics driver version?

The video card is an ATI Radeon 4670 with the latest legacy drivers 13.9 - v8.970.100.1100.

This was fine until Bug 1194780 landed and plugin-container.exe was forced with flash videos. Some systems obviously need the flexibility to disable OOPP, at least for the time being.
Flags: needinfo?(marty6001)
Today's build does not have this problem anymore so at least for my setup I'll consider the bug resolved. If it re-appears in future builds I'll add additional comments.
according to comment 3 , I am closing this as WORKSFORME, re open if the issue appears again.
thanks
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
QA Whiteboard: [testday-20151127]
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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