Adobe Flash only works sometimes

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:10:18 +0930, Tim wrote:

> Lonni J Friedman:
>>> I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin
>>> installed.
>>>  For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc).
>>> However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. 
>>> When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white
>>> square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty
>>> error that I need to install Flash.
> 
> 
> Amadeus W.M.:
>> I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it.
>> CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any
>> video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list.
>> However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it
>> eventually plays.
> 
> I get the same with youtube.  Often I'll get Flash appear to load, then
> vanish, leaving a blank space, and several page reloads will be needed
> to kick it back into working.  Occasionally, the failure will happen
> part way into playing the file, with the same blank space effect and
> reloading required.  Rarely I'll be told I don't have Flash installed,
> but seeing as that happens so rarely, I've put that down to stupid
> webmasters doing stupid tests.  And there are a few sites where the
> player just never works.
> 
> Perhaps related:  If on youtube I ope another page in a background tab
> while playing a video, the playing video will often abort (in the above
> manner).
> 
> I get the impression that the Flash player crashes really easily.
> 
> --
> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
> 
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
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How about these sites:

https://www.citicards.com/
http://www.dbfx.com


firefox -debug 

shows 

*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** ERROR: NPN_ReleaseObject() invoke: Message type 
invalid
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Message type 
invalid
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Write() invoke: Message type invalid
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Message type 
invalid

(firefox:27316): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_remove_internal: assertion 
`hash_table != NULL' failed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_URLNotify() invoke: Connection reset 
by peer
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0xad42ff0 is not valid!
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0xad42ff0 is not valid!

and it goes on and on.


Is the bug/configuration problem with nspluginwrapper rather than flash?

I ran mozilla-plugin-conf -v and I got a bunch of FAILs, many (if not all) 
of which have to do with totem or some totem libraries.