Flash player settings dialog unclickable

[jason_Xtreme]

Each time I connect to a site with flash apps that want to access the allow/deny dialog flash freezes.
The actions still take place but flash becomes unclickable

Intrepid 32 bit
Lastest flash from repos

Any1 else has had this problem??
Any fixes??

[ratmandall]

Each time I connect to a site with flash apps that want to access the allow/deny dialog flash freezes.
The actions still take place but flash becomes unclickable

Intrepid 32 bit
Lastest flash from repos

Any1 else has had this problem??
Any fixes??

Bump.

Same thing happens to me, same specs.

To test, Go to live.yahoo.com
Right click the video playing choose settings then see if you can click the pop up and change settings?

[jason_Xtreme]

not a fix more of a work around and i bet this is more comlplicated than needs be.
I install youplayer for firefox which then asked to adjust so flash settings through the adobe website.
i just set everything to disabled site i wasnt using mic/camera features anyway.
now the app loads ok.

[PoHandle]

I used jason_Xtreme's suggestion and was able to work around the problem.

To clarify:
I went to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html to use Adobe's global settings manager. On the flash dialog, I clicked on the Website Privacy Settings tab (the one that looks like a monitor with an eye on it), then clicked on the website that I wanted to allow usage of my hardware (in my case, www.woome.com) and clicked always allow.

I agree that this is unnecessarily complicated. I hope this is fixed with future updates.

[olegueret]

Right-clicking on the flash movie also gives me a disabled "Settings..." option.

I've discovered that this is caused when the flash movie is set to be shown in windowless mode (wmode=opaque or wmode=transparent) in flash player 10.

For example, youtube and vimeo videos have wmode=window and doesn't have this problem, but Metacafe uses wmode=transparent and settings option is not clickable.

I've already reported this bug to Adobe (https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1211).

(tested in hardy - FF 3.0.4 and Opera 9.62, flash player 10, both adobe-flashplugin and official tar.gz from Adobe)


Bump.

Same thing happens to me, same specs.

To test, Go to live.yahoo.com
Right click the video playing choose settings then see if you can click the pop up and change settings?

[shaolinchamp]

yeah, i only run into to the dialog on sites like saphrachat.

[fluocantus]

When I go into the settings I can't change anything. I can't change any tabs nor can I confirm or cancel any changes (like with how much data flash can store)

[itisbasi]

I have this problem only on megavideo.com and supernovatube. The settings dialog is enabled in youtube though....I can't figure out why... it's the same adobe flash player 10 running in all these sites...!!!

[binbash]

same issue here

[pierre.fr34]

Right-clicking on the flash movie also gives me a disabled "Settings..." option.

I've discovered that this is caused when the flash movie is set to be shown in windowless mode (wmode=opaque or wmode=transparent) in flash player 10.

For example, youtube and vimeo videos have wmode=window and doesn't have this problem, but Metacafe uses wmode=transparent and settings option is not clickable.

I've already reported this bug to Adobe (https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1211).

(tested in hardy - FF 3.0.4 and Opera 9.62, flash player 10, both adobe-flashplugin and official tar.gz from Adobe)

Same problem for me.

Adobe doesn't seem to be very reactive on this. Their answer is completely useless ( see here (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes_02.html#head35) ) ! Why is Linux the only affected OS ??:-?

[psmaster]

I have the same problem. I have only tried it in stickam and Hulu so far, Hulu works, Stickam does not

[hobo343]

Same problem for me.

Adobe doesn't seem to be very reactive on this. Their answer is completely useless ( see here (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes_02.html#head35) ) ! Why is Linux the only affected OS ??:-?


well their answer is somewhat useful but geared more for the developer of your favorite site not the end user. i tried chan ging the <embed> tag's wmode parameter from transparent to window like they tell you to (i used firebug while looking at the page) but still didn't work for me on namemytune.com. so simple yet so annoying...

[diazamet]

Flash will read some settings from a file.

I found that setting the option:

WindowlessDisable=true

in the file:

/etc/adobe/mms.cfg

Allows me to use my webcam on UStream.

[mag1]

I tried that and restarted my browser, didn't work for me, though i didn't have an adobe folder or mms.cfg in etc and made it myself so that may be the problem, i did a search but didn't find it elsewhere?

[mag1]

This seems like a pretty silly artificially created problem by the flash devs from what i've read, it needs fixing!

[pete]

Go to: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html

Go to the Website Privacy Settings tab (it's the one that looks like a monitor with an eye on it) in the little Flash applet.
Scroll down the Visited Websites list until you find www.ustream.tv.
select that line.
change the privacy setting to "Always allow".


From that point forward, ustream should work fine with your webcam and mic. Unfortunately, the Linux implementation of Flash is apparently incapable of prompting you for access like the Windows and Mac version do. Be warned, though--you will have just made it so you will *never* get prompted, and any time you go to the Ustream site, it will automatically have access to your webcam/mic.

[frazerr]

Go to: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html

Go to the Website Privacy Settings tab (it's the one that looks like a monitor with an eye on it) in the little Flash applet.
change the privacy setting to "Always allow".


From that point forward, ustream should work fine with your webcam and mic.

Thanks pete, that worked to see my webcam,
but now I cant hear any sound from flash and clicking on setting just freezes flash. any ideas what to do?

[gux2k3]

Hi, I have the same problem and found the issue

I have cursor fx installed, I noticed some behaviour issues with the click, like I have to triple click an icon on the desktop (first focus an then doubleclick) when I disabled it the problem was gone.

If you dont have cursorfx I recommend you disabling ANY software that may be involved with the cursor behavior . In have also ubuntu but havent tried, but my best guess maybe a beryl module involving the cursor or the window is the source

My specs

Windows 7 32bits
dual boot ubuntu
Opera 9.64
IE 8
google chrome 3.0.195
firefox
all browsers gave the same results

hope this helps

[fchx]

I have the same issue.

If I turn off gnome-do the problem dissapears and I can click in the preferences.

[chenxiaolong]

That is a bug in the Ubuntu packaged version of Flash. You will have to uninstall "flashplugin-nonfree" and "flashplugin-installer" and download the flash player from Adobe.

x32 edition:http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

x64 edition: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Then, you will have to extract the tar.gz file and copy "libflashplayer.so" to "~/.mozilla/plugins".

Then enjoy your working Flash!!