Weird Firefox / Chormium behavior in forms plus flash issue

Hi

Yesterday something weird started to happen in firefox: I can’t login in to Facebook, because I can’t see the form labels and I can’t write nothing into the text inputs. (Note : I can see the labels in the HTML sourcecode)

I’ve check some other logins forms as twitter, google, and they look ok, but when I was trying to post in this forum this issue, I realize i couldn’t do it also (see the image bellow), so I presume that yesterday, I could see the forms, possibly I wouldn’t be able to pass nothing in the input fields.

Only Konqueror can do it.:\

Today, apart from that, firefox wouldn’t play youtube videos.
So I try installing chromium, but same problem.

Konqueror , for some reason keeps functioning ok ! :\

So, I’ve remove firefox, chromium and everything about flash that I could find. (by the way, removing this packages, I’m forced to install Thunderbird, and if I want to remove Thunderbird, I’m force to install Firefox ???)

Now, I have Firefox working with flash but I can’t fill forms

I’ve just installed |flash-player - Adobe Flash Plugin and Standalone Player
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But I have available this ones that were installed (do I need them ?):
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[TD]flash-player-kde4 - Adobe Flash Plugin and Standalone Player Settings
lightspark - Modern, free, open-source flash player implementation
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[TD]pullin-flash-player - Placeholder for Adobe Flash PlugIn

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Another thing : After I try to submit or click in this input fields, KDE panel becomes weird to : KDE wallet comes up in the panel, Korganizer, and they become hard to close…

As i reacall, yesterday I’ve just install some fonsts, and there was a flash-player update…
Any ideias ? I like Konqueror…but not that much

http://i59.tinypic.com/xktx6o.png

This is what I get filling a input field on Firefox
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Any chance you inform us which versions of the different software you use (e.g. openSUSE)?

Couple of days ago there was a FF update I believe.

Yes, but it hasn’t changed much as far as I can see.

Before the update, I could not login to facebook. After the update, I still cannot login to facebook.

However, I think my inability to login to facebook has something to do with my not having an account there (and I have no interest in joining).

Hi
openSuSe 13.1 with all the updates.

Yes, I think there was a FireFox update 2 days ago…or something

Don’t use face slap so have no idea if that is a general problem or just a local one for the OP

But wanted to mention FF update since it may or may not be relevant

I can’t post in the title input field in this forum.

I think I can post there. I’ll see when this posts. I’m using firefox.

Is it possible that you have some weird extension that is causing problems?

Sorry, don’t understand what you mean.

I’ve installed Xfce, to see if it wassomething with KDE. I’m now posting this with firefox on a Xfce.
I can reply in the WYSIWYG , but still I can’t write nothing in the title input field.

Another thing that I’m seeing now, is that I can’t see the Quotes text , I just see the blue box and the icon…:\

How can I got back to some previous version of Firefox ? Is is possible in Yast ?
Hum, now i want to post this, but I can’t see the buttons text , I’ll try my luck rotfl!

http://s15.postimg.org/42v9snw97/sdgt78.png

No, I haven’t install nothing in FF

I was able to change the title field to say “(testing to see if I can change the title field)”. So, assuming that is what you were talking about, I am not having the same problem.

Another thing that I’m seeing now, is that I can’t see the Quotes text , I just see the blue box and the icon…:\

If you highlight, by selecting with the mouse, can you then see it?

Hmm, I am using the “Basic Green” forum style, instead of the default “openSUSE-CMS”. I’ll switch shortly, and see if that changes what I am seeing. Maybe you can tell us what forum style you are using.

And can you post the output from


# zypper lr -d

(that lists your repos). Use code tags to post the output (the “#” icon will put them around selected text).

Posting this with the openSUSE-CMS style. Everything still looks fine, except for the problems that caused me to change to Basic Green. So I’ll change back after posting this.

No

# | Alias                     | Name                               | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                             | Service--+---------------------------+------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | SuSE                      | SuSE                               | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.videolan.org/SuSE/13.1/                         |        
2 | repo-debug                | openSUSE-13.1-Debug                | No      | No      |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/  |        
3 | repo-debug-update         | openSUSE-13.1-Update-Debug         | No      | No      |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.1/                 |        
4 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-13.1-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No      | No      |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.1-non-oss/         |        
5 | repo-non-oss              | openSUSE-13.1-Non-Oss              | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/    |        
6 | repo-oss                  | openSUSE-13.1-Oss                  | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/        |        
7 | repo-source               | openSUSE-13.1-Source               | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/ |        
8 | repo-update               | openSUSE-13.1-Update               | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1/                       |        
9 | repo-update-non-oss       | openSUSE-13.1-Update-Non-Oss       | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1-non-oss/            

I don’t have flash again in chromium or FF …
I’ve try to follow this :SDB:Flash on Google Chrome - openSUSE Wiki , but there was nothing in /opt , so I did the link to where the plugins folder was found with locate.
But still nothing.

ok, so for chromium I follow this : http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Amik34020&package=chromium-pepper-flash

And now it’s working and FF to.

About the forms input fields , I haven’t found a solution …

But for me this is a bit confusing, pepper flash, flash…

I check the .xsessions-errors, I have a lot of errors there, but to this topic, I found this :

(process:7814): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

(firefox:7814): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised


(firefox:7814): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised


(firefox:7814): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised

The chromium folk recently removed support for NPAPI (the Netscape Plugin API). They are instead using a different API, and “pepper flash” works with that different API.

As far as I can tell, those are not a problem. From my system, I see:


(process:31338): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

(firefox:31338): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised

(firefox:31338): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised

(firefox:31338): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised

(firefox:31338): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::default-icon after class was initialised

I’ve been seeing something similar for years, and it has not caused a problem here.

ok
Is there a way to go back to the previous version of FF ?

And if not, how can I uninstall it without installing Thunderbird ?

thanks

You can install a previous version, which should still be in the repo. Use Yast software management, and click the version tab to see (and select) the version that you want. When done, lock firefox from automatic update.

However, I am guess that won’t solve your problem.

Here’s a different suggestion. Create a new user. Then see whether the new user has the same problem. Maybe you just have a corrupted firefox profile (i.e. settings).

Yes, I would try this.
I’m using the latest Firefox (31.1.xx) and have no problems with forms - on facebook or any other site.