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19. September 2011, 14:01:44

mauromol

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] Flash Plugin placeholder

Hello,
recently (I think it has been from the time I installed the latest Opera 11.51, but I'm not sure) I'm seeing a giant "play button" placeholder whenever I open a web page using Flash. This is very annoying and prevents me from browsing contents of many web sites.
Previously I just had to click to enable the input on Flash contents, but the giant "play" placeholder was not displayed.

Searching the Internet a found that I can disable the "Enabled on demand plugin placeholder" in about:config (under User Prefs) to remove that, however apart from the fact that this option seems to have become enabled by default (!!!), I still can't see the behaviour I had previously. I mean, if I disable the plugin placeholder, every time I load a page with Flash I see an empty rectangular frame with the writing "plugin not installed" instead of the Flash content: I have to click on that frame to make the flash content visible.

As I said, previously the Flash content was always immediately visible, while I had only to click on it just to enable it to receive mouse and keyboard input. This was annoying, too, but much less than the current situation, in which many websites have become unusable.

With other browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE...) I don't have so much problems with Flash contents...

Thanks in advance for any help.
Mauro.

19. September 2011, 14:13:40

Luxor

Scotland

Posts: 72918

Turn off Opera Turbo
Opera 12.16 build 1860 Windows Vista Premium SP2

Be helpful to the shyman, and be wary of the slyman.
Be guidance to the blindman, and be thankful to the kindman.

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19. September 2011, 15:12:58

mauromol

Posts: 7

Yeah, that was the problem, actually! Thank you very much for your help!
Opera Turbo was enabled because I had some connectivity problems recently. I didn't know it changed the way the Flash content is handled!

Thanks again!
Mauro.

19. September 2011, 15:29:34

Luxor

Scotland

Posts: 72918

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Opera 12.16 build 1860 Windows Vista Premium SP2

Be helpful to the shyman, and be wary of the slyman.
Be guidance to the blindman, and be thankful to the kindman.

ʎzzıp ʇǝƃ llıʍ noʎ ʇıq sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ ʇ,uop

19. September 2011, 19:38:38

blackbird71

Built for speed...

Posts: 1662

Thank you, mauromol, for editing your thread title to add [SOLVED]. That always proves helpful for searchers later who are simply looking for previous solutions to a problem... and it shows a touch of "class" on your part.
Opera 12.14u (1738), 11.52 (1100) & 10.63 (3576) running on various Windows systems from Win7-64 down through KernelEx4-modified Win98FE (proof that reports of Win98's demise are greatly exaggerated).

20. September 2011, 08:41:25

mauromol

Posts: 7

Not at all! It didn't cost anything to me and I'm also one of those that searches the Internet for solutions a lot when I have problems, so I know how useful certain details are :-)

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