Re: Ubuntu 12.04: Serious problems with operapluginwrapper-native

Morgan Hughes <[email protected]> writes:

> Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote:
>> Morgan Hughes <[email protected]> writes:
>>> Is there something I'm missing?
>> I wouldn't think so.
>
> Thanks, I'll have to spend a bit more time experimenting with it.
>
>
>>> Second, can you comment on bug DSK-357435 which I filed?  
>> Not entirely surprising, given how plug-ins work.  I know we've fixed
>> similar bugs sometimes in the past.
>> There's been substantial rewriting happening for the plug-in support in
>> opera 12, so it may be fixed now.  If it still happens with 12, I'd like
>> to know about it so I can update the bug report.
>
> That's encouraging.  I usually avoid betas but I'll give 12 beta a try.

"Substantial rewriting" usually fixes lots of bugs.  And creates even
more :)

> One thing I note reading
> 	http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-290.10-driver
> is they list a change
> 	Fixed a bug that would cause applications which export custom
> 	allocation functions to our driver (such as Adobe Flash in
> 	Firefox or Chrome) to crash.
>
> Makes me wonder if they didn't test with 64-bit Opera and their fix
> made things worse?  With Flash 11.2 r202 I've seen other bizarre
> behavior, like treating #FFFFFF as a transparent mask, so the Flash
> content "shines through" other applications' windows over top of it...
> which I think supports the case that Flash is talking direct to the X
> server without coordinating with Opera.

For "windowed" plug-ins, the plug-in and the browser both talk directly
to the X server without coordinating anything.  Flash can act both as a
"windowed" and a "windowless" plug-in.

eirik
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