The latest official version (and supposedly the last version for Linux) of Flash player has some interesting issues on Linux systems. The biggest issues which have summarily been confirmed on the Ubuntu forums are:
- YouTube videos have a red / blue color overlay
- Flash content shows through on other windows
How do I fix this?
Best Answer
The commonly accepted solution to this issue appears to be disabling hardware acceleration for Flash player. This is usually accomplished by right-clicking the Flash content, selecting
Settings
and then uncheck theEnable Hardware Acceleration
option, but in the affected version of Flash player, it isn't possible to uncheck that particular option (clicking it does absolutely nothing). As such, the following two work-arounds exist for disabling hardware acceleration:/etc/adobe/mms.cfg
and add the following configuration parameter to it:EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0
Settings
and uncheck theEnable Hardware Acceleration
option. For some reason this only seems to work when Flash player is in fullscreen mode.Method 2 fixed it for me.