303756 - Flash animations are blank

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[TJ]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

This seems to have just started today but I can't figure out what's causing it.
Nearly everytime for every flash animation on any page, the animation is nothing
but a white rectangle. I did actually get an animation to render when I opened a
tab and loaded my homepage with a flash ad but flash broke again when I tried to
load an entirely flash page. At first I thought it may've been related to a bug
in the WM I am currently developing but I reproduced this with twm. Recent
changes I made were to the noia theme from the default and to a different GTK-2
theme. I'm running Gentoo.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Goto a website using flash.
Actual Results:  
The embedded flash animation is blank.

Expected Results:  
There should be the visible animation.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Does this also occour with a new profile (run firefox -profileManager)?

Comment 2

[AvvY]

I had the same thing using the Beta on WinXP pro SP2 - I reinstalled flash and
then with a new profile and now it works properly.

Comment 3

[Tom]

Yesterday Firefox updated to Firefox 1.0.7, now i have this problem, too.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919
Firefox/1.0.7
I'm working with XP Home SP2 
Flash 7
No Quicktime installed,
No Adblock installed.
Please look at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=320838
there are lots of people having the same problems, with different types of
configuration. This now seems to be a major problem and should be solved
immediately.

Comment 4

[Ben Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051006
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005100607
XP pro sp2 
install_flash_player.exe
Macromedia Flash Player 8.0 Installer DL'd 10/07

I confirm for my system 

Comment 5

[TJ]

This no longer seems to be an issue with recent versions of Firefox and the Flash beta. It should be marked closed.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

recent as in what version(s)?

Comment 7

[Ben Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 ID:2007030919
works here ( Test Adobe Shockwave & Flash Players )
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/

-though I notice I haven't installed shockwave since I reinstalled windows a week agg  
looks good