This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

SWF playing corrupts desktop background

  • 3 replies
  • 12 have this problem
  • 11 views
  • Last reply by BillLee

more options

Using FF 3.6.13 on Fedora 13, KDE

When playing a SWF file in FF, the last viewed image corrupts the desktop background. Wherever another application has a white color, the latent image from the last SWF shows through.

As a test, I set the desktop background to solid white. The screen image can be seen at http://www.wrlee.com/Pictures/CorruptedBackground.jpeg This image was taken with a digital camera since the KSnapshot tool does not pick up the corrupted desktop background that is "showing through" the application. The picture shows the FireFox screen when I was typing this message.

Looking at the picture you can see the ghost image of the last SWF I viewed when I visited a website. (That site was http://www.sunbrella.com/ )

This is a very annoying bug since YouTube images are SWF, and SWF is used more and more in websites that I visit.

Logging off and back in (i.e., restarting the KDE window system) cures the problem until I stumble across the next SWF file and it corrupts the background again.

Need help! Badly!

Regards,

Bill Lee

Using FF 3.6.13 on Fedora 13, KDE When playing a SWF file in FF, the last viewed image corrupts the desktop background. Wherever another application has a white color, the latent image from the last SWF shows through. As a test, I set the desktop background to solid white. The screen image can be seen at http://www.wrlee.com/Pictures/CorruptedBackground.jpeg This image was taken with a digital camera since the KSnapshot tool does not pick up the corrupted desktop background that is "showing through" the application. The picture shows the FireFox screen when I was typing this message. Looking at the picture you can see the ghost image of the last SWF I viewed when I visited a website. (That site was http://www.sunbrella.com/ ) This is a very annoying bug since YouTube images are SWF, and SWF is used more and more in websites that I visit. Logging off and back in (i.e., restarting the KDE window system) cures the problem until I stumble across the next SWF file and it corrupts the background again. Need help! Badly! Regards, Bill Lee

Modified by BillLee

All Replies (3)

more options

Also will add the image here.

Modified by BillLee

more options

I have the same issue with the latest Shockwave Flash 10.2 r152 player on Linux.
I can see the ghosted and crashed Flash player in Firefox if I change the background color to black (Edit > Preferences > Content > Colors).

I have reverted to Flash 10.1 r102 (10.1.102.65) because of this.

more options

Thanks for the response.

How do I go about reverting the Adobe Flash plugin in FF to the earlier version?

Or is there perhaps an alternate plugin for Flash?

Modified by BillLee