Whenever I try to open up a webpage where a flash files is embed in I get this error: 'The plugin initialization failed. Reload the page to try again.' Reloading doesn't work and I've remerged netscape-flash a couple of times now and it's still not working. But...when I link to a .swf file directly, it works ok. So somewhere something is wrong, but I've no idea where or what. Anyone an idea ?? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I have the same problem, except I don't get the error message. The page loads, but the space where the flash should be is missing. about:plugins lists "Shockwave Flash" as usual. As noted by the original poster, loading the .swf file directly displays it correctly (it fills the whole window, of course). I have tried re-emerging firefox, netscape-flash, and even gtk+. I have tried emerging older versions of netscape-flash (ones that worked for me before) and gtk+. I haven't yet tried older versions of firefox, as it takes quite a long time to compile them, although that's probably where the problem is located (I believe the problem started after upgrading to 0.9.1). -Jacius
I tried Firefox 0.8, and it works like it should (embedded flash is displayed). I'm emerging 0.9-r1 right now, to see if it works too.
Firefox 0.9-r1 does not work. So, it appears something changed between 0.8 and 0.9 that broke this. I assume that not everyone is having this problem, or there would probably be more posts here.
I agree :) Ok, thanks for your replies :) I hope this problem wil be fixed in the r2 release...cause I really hate this ;)
Could you provide an URL that demonstrates the failure?
A Dutch site: http://www.mycom.nl It's the site of a computer store, in the middle is a big flash thing, nut that doesn't work for me, cause it's embed.
I think the bug has something to do with the presence of settings from old versions. I created a new user for the purpose of loading a web page with flash on it, to see if it worked. To my surprise, it did work! This new user had aboslutely no settings from other apps or previous versions of Firefox (he barely even had a .bash_history). I'm not sure what the details on the settings are, but I'm going to do more tests.
I think I've solved the problem! (at least, I have on my computer!) I changed ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.grc/chrome/userContent.css to comment out the line: { -moz-binding: url("chrome://flashblock/content/flash.xml#obj"); } It should be removed or have the comment characters '/*' and '*/' (without the single quotes) put around it. This line was perhaps added by the "click Flash to play" extension of previous versions, which would not render embedded flash files until you clicked on them. Commenting out/removing this line has entirely resolved the issue for me!
Heh, I was so excited that I fixed it that I failed to notice the obvious. The entire contents of the userContent.css file (about which I just posted) make the issue even clearer (text is between lines of =, added by me): ================================================================ /* * Flash Click to View by Ted Mielczarek (luser_mozilla@perilith.com) * Original code by Jesse Ruderman (jruderman@hmc.edu) * taken from http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/xbl.html * * Change XBL binding for <object> tags, click to view flash * * Doesn't work for <embed> tags, which are less common than <object> tags - bug 190970 */ object[classid$=":D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"], object[codebase*="swflash.cab"] { -moz-binding: url("chrome://flashblock/content/flash.xml#obj"); } ================================================================ Note that this was the entire file contents for me (maybe not for others, though). Just removing the userContent.css file will also work to fix the problem. Perhaps a warning should be added to the mozilla-firefox ebuild, so users can know to edit/remove this file when upgrading from before 0.9?
I don't even have a ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile name>/chrome/userContent.css :S I still only have the example files :S Weird....
I don't know if my situation is exactly related, but here goes: With the site of www.mastermindsadvertising.com, a company that I work for, I only see about 1/3 of the flash display. Upon further investigation, I discovered that it has to do with the <object> and <embed> tags in association with the <table> tag. Specifically with the width and height parameters. If I remove the <table> and related tags the problem goes away. If I leave the <table> tags in with no changes to original values and change the width parameter from 100% to 800 for both the <object> and <embed> tags, the problem goes away. If I change the width of the table to 800 and make no change to the original values of the <object> and <embed> tags, the problem persists. This also happens with jibjab.com in their ANIMATION section. I looked at the source and the <object> and <embed> tags width uses percentages like mastermindsadvertising.com. I'm sure there are other examples out their, but these are the only two sites that I have visited with this setup. As to the site of www.mycom.nl, I didn't experience any problems with it. I also looked at the source of the page and for the <object> and <embed> tags, they don't use percentages. Note, this is with Mozilla-1.7.3 and Firefox-1.0_rc1(and 1.0_pre-r1), whether compiled or bin packages, on Linux with netscape-flash-6.0.81(and 7.0.25). I also tried a new user account, but that didn't work either. I did notice his problem doesn't happen with the named versions under MS Windows. This leads me to belive that the problem lies within the interpretation of percentages for the width and height parameters of the <object> and <embed> tags when used in conjuction with tables, at least for what I have tested, in Mozilla and Firefox on Linux. I don't know if this happens on other distributions of Linux because I only use Gentoo (at home and work). If you need more information, just let me know. If this does not apply to this problem, please let me know, and I will fill out a new bug report.
I'm not seeing this problem with mozilla-firefox-1.0-r1 and netscape-flash-7.0.25. I'm guessing the problem was fixed in the intervening versions. Please re-open if it's still a problem for you.
I'm using FF 1.0 (final) atm, but I sill have the problem....
Using Firefox 1.0 and tried both flash 6.x and 7.x and still have the problem.
I solved it :) I emptied _all_ the mozilla/firefox plugin directories (ofcouse make a backup), and installed the plugins again, one by one. This solved it for me. I think I just never thought about cleaning the plugin dirs...
After a fresh install of Gentoo, I'm still experiencing my problem. But, I found where the problem lies, with the default enabling of GTK2. After some hacking of the eclass file, changing gtk2 to gtk, and ln -s libIDL-config-2 libIDL-config in the /usr/bin directory, I was able to view flash properly again. So the problem seems to lie with firefox and GTK2. Would this be an upstream problem? Another question would be, why was the GTK use variable removed from the firefox ebuild?
(In reply to comment #1) > I have the same problem, except I don't get the error message. The page loads, > but the space where the flash should be is missing. about:plugins lists > "Shockwave Flash" as usual. As noted by the original poster, loading the .swf > file directly displays it correctly (it fills the whole window, of course). > Had the same problem when I installed the 'Amazing Media Browser' extension. It's got an option to 'Block all Embedded Objects'. Disable and have fun.
