In the latest version of Adobe Flash Player, 10.2, there’s a “great” feature (not…): hardware acceleration. Enabled by default.
On many video cards (roughly all but Nvidia’s running on the closed Nvidia driver), this causes pink screens in Flash video’s and even Firefox crashes. Both in Firefox 3.x and in Firefox 4.x.
The solution is, thankfully, rather simple: disable hardware acceleration. As follows:
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Visit this website: Moodstream™ by Getty Images
(or any other that uses a special kind of flash content, not Youtube, which uses a different kind!) -
Wait until the content has loaded. Then rightclick with your mouse on the screen - Settings - remove the check at hardware acceleration.
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Go to Youtube and play a random video. The problem should be solved.
Have fun! openSUSE 11.4 rocks, and so does Firefox 4.