Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

With Ubuntu 9.10 installed, 64-bit or 32-bit doesn´t matter, the following 
happens:
When watching a page with a flash video + flash buttons beside it, both video 
and the rest of the page experience random flickering and flashes (no joke). 
This is one of our favourite news sites (swedish) and if you have Ubuntu 9.10 
you probably get the same problem we do when watching it:
http://playrapport.se/
Double-clicking to get full screen video (no flash buttons visible, of course) 
removes the flickering, but wathing in a window (to get access to the buttons 
to change video is a real pain.

We have installed 9.10 on four different computers, all got the same
problem.

It is not an overload, the computer I use right now has a processor load
of about 50 %, and only 10.2% of the 4 GB RAM is being used. This
computer has Nvidia 8200 graphics card, we have tested both Nvidia
drivers recommended with the same result. Turning off visual effects
(Compiz) doesn´t help either.

We have used a separate harddisk to install and test other distros that also 
use the Gnome desktop to see if that is the problem:
Mandriva One 2010 (gnome) works fine, no flashing.
OpenSuse 11.2 (gnome) works fine, no flashing.
And Ubuntu 9.04 also works perfectly.
The problem is ONLY on Ubuntu 9.10 and on all computers we have installed it 
on, both 32-bit Ubuntu + 32 bit flash plugin and 64-bit with the 64 bit flash 
plugin (from Adobe). And on all our graphics cards: Intel graphics on the 
laptop computer, three different Nvidia cards, 6100, 7300 and 8200.
Trying Opera there was no flickering/flashing but it couldn´t get the video 
size right...

The same site ( http://svtplay.se/ ) also has other flash videos, but no
flash buttons beside them, and those videos work just fine, also in a
window.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 18 20:27:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic-pae
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae i686

** Affects: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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Flickering on sites with Flash video + Flash buttons
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484976
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