Big white box over some Flash videos
 

With some flash videos, when I play them there is a large white box obscuring most of it:
http://drigz.petbo.com/flash.png
I get this in mozilla and epiphany. I have the official flash player v7.0 (its in about: plugins)(without space - damn emoticons).

How can i get rid of this - it's really annoying.

edit: although the picture doesnt show it (i took it at a bad time) you can see some stuff to the right of the white box - 3 columns of the balls on that site.

That particular page doesn't seem to be valid HTML. It may look fine in MS Internet Explorer but other more conformant browsers, that try to follow the rules and specifications, have difficulties. I suggest you contact the author or webmaster of the site in question and ask if they could do something about it.

Regards
Simon

i also get it here:

http://drigz.petbo.com/bigbox.png

is that the same problem?

It seems I was a bit hasty in my reasoning. Though the HTML code used to embed the flash animations in the pages is not standards compliant, the real reason for the "empty box" seems to be a bug in Mozilla or in the Flash plug-in. I tried to view the same sites with older versions of Mozilla (1.5) and the plug-in (6.0 r79) and everything looked fine.

Epiphany uses Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, so the same bug is present there also.

If you want to see the Flash animations properly, you could try installing a more stabile version of Mozilla. The newest version of Firefox that has just come out could also have the bug fixed. If the problem is in the Flash plug-in, it may take longer to get fixed.

Regards
Simon

yeh - it works in konqueror - but konqueror is so ugly, and i dont really like mozilla. are there any other browsers that look like epiphany but dont use gecko?

There are quite a few Web browsers for Linux and many of them are based on Gecko, but some are not. Those alternative ones are often fast, light and usable for basic surfing, but seriously lack in features that many people are used to. Moreover, the only non-Mozilla-derivative capable of using the Linux (Netscape) Flash plug-in is, as far as I know, Opera. It's a versatile commercial product and some people are very fond of it.

As you might know, some browsers, like Mozilla, are skinnable. By using a different skin you can alter the look of the browser. Often most of the skins available are, in my opinion, pretty lousy. Your system settings affect the appearance also.

I found a list of Linux browsers:
http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreu...n_browser.html

It's not very professional, but quite comprehensive.

Regards
Simon

I might give opera a try... although some people are fond of very odd things..