272445 - Flash movies get filled with black

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Hanabi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I noticed this happens in Firefox 1.0 (Linux), and also some previous versions.
It doesn't seem to happen in Mozilla, which would suggest that it's not a
problem with Gecko.

What actually happens is, Flash movies become filled with black "boxes". If the
Flash movie updates a certain area, that area will be redrawn over the top of
the "boxes". However, if there is an area which isn't being updated, the "boxes"
remain on top, and it takes a few right clicks to get rid of them. Quite
annoying, and they often reappear soon after anyway.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a website containing a Flash movie (ie. http://www.macromedia.com/).
2. Right click the Flash movie a few times, play with the scrollbar, click the
Flash movie and then the outside document, or switch to a different tab and back.



Build platform
target
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc 	gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1) 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -pedantic -pthread -pipe
c++ 	gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1) 	-fno-rtti
-fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
-Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor
-Wno-long-long -pedantic -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -I/usr/X11R6/include

Configure arguments
--disable-ldap --disable-mailnews
--enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth
--enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile
--disable-profilesharing --disable-debug '--enable-optimize=-Os -freorder-blocks
-fno-reorder-functions -gstabs+' --disable-tests --enable-official-branding
--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-xft --disable-freetype2 --enable-static
--disable-shared

Comment 1

[Hanabi]

Attachment: Screenshot of the problem

Comment 2

[Travis Hume]

I can confirm this behaviour.  This bug is easily reproduced.  
1. Goto: http://flickr.com/photos/seattlehumes/1878160/
2. Click on Boo (the cat)
3. Click outside of the flash object

The picture of Boo should turn completely black.  I've confirmed this bug exists
on Linux using Firefox 1.0 and Mozilla 1.7.3.  This bug does not exist using
Firefox 1.0 on windows.

Makes using flickr.com on Linux annoying.

Comment 3

[Joseph Yasi]

I can also confirm this bug.  The problem began occuring when I updated to GTK
2.6.0.  I rebuilt Firefox 1.0 after upgrading and the problem was not resolved.
 I'm running Slackware Current with Linux Kernel 2.6.10-rc3-mm1.
Configure Options:
--enable-strip
--disable-installer
--disable-debug
--enable-optimize="-O2 -march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -mfpmath=sse -msse2"
--disable-tests
--disable-freetype2
--enable-xft
--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
--with-pthreads
--prefix=/usr

Comment 4

[Joseph Yasi]

The bug was a problem with gtk+2.6.0.  After upgrading to gtk+2.6.1 and glib
2.6.1 the problem went away.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #4)
> The bug was a problem with gtk+2.6.0.  After upgrading to gtk+2.6.1 and glib
> 2.6.1 the problem went away.


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