Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #410407
  2. Comment #83

Comment 83 for bug 410407

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Duane Hinnen (duanedesign) wrote : Re: flash does not recognise mouse clicks

i too am suffering from this bug. No mouse clicks in Flash. The R-click workaround did help. Switching to metacity also helped. However this bug is being experienced by people who do not use Compiz. I ran about:plugins in Firefox. I noticed Firefox was not using the normal 64 bit plugin i had installed, it was using.
npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
While helping someone in a support channel I did install the 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' package (I am assuming where the 32 bit flash plugin came from).

duanedesign@duanedesign-laptop:~$ locate libflashplayer.so
/home/duanedesign/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/share/ubufox/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

You can see it located my 64 bit plugin in my home directory and the npwrapper.libflashplayer.so.
I uninstalled 'flashplugin-installer' and 'nspluginwrapper'.

I launched Firefox put about:plugins in the address bar and got:
libflashplayer.so
Good I thought. So I proceeded to YouTube, which worked great, and was able to use all the Flash buttons. However visiting Gmail crashes the browser instantly. No turning gray, it just disappears.

So fixed one problem, have a new one. Well same problem, different symptom :)

See this blog post. Describes the problem well and has a solution (which unfortunately did not work for me). He got to the point I am at and installed the package 'libadns1'. This worked for him

He compared the output of ldd libflashplayer.so while running 64bit Firefox on Karmic and in a Jaunty chroot (ran fine on the latter). He noticed one extra library was showing up in the chroot, libresolv.so.2 which prompted him to install 'libadns1'. Also worth a note he was running Sawfish and does not use Compiz.