All Flash, no substance
Posted 2 years, 10 months ago at 13:16. 1 comment
Sometime back in the 1.0.x days, Flash stopped working in Firefox on my Linux box. Well, that’s not entirely accurate, I was still getting audio, but no video was being displayed. Largely I didn’t care, it just saved me the trouble of installing Flashblock.
My recent discovery of Pandora made me anxious to finally find a solution, since the Pandora front-end is entirely Flash-based. After searching for a good while, I came across this article which identified the culprit as Adblock. Disabling Adblock got Flash working again. If I had known in advance that Adblock was the culprit, it would have been quite easy to find references to the problem, but starting with just “linux+firefox+flash+video+no+workee” was a bit of a slog.
In fairness to Adblock, I tried updating to the latest version of the extension afterward, and Flash continues to work. I’m now running Adblock “v.5 d3 * nightly 42″ (what kind of version number is that?) and Flash plugin version 7.0 r61 on Linux without any issues. Yay!
This was fixed a long, long time ago in the Adblock Plus fork. Unfortunately, it requires something on the scale of a catastrophic meteor impact for the official Adblock devs to ship a release.