Odd Colors in Ubuntu's Flash Player

After one of the Ubuntu 11.10 updates I was affected by some really weird colors in the embedded flash player. Basically, every movie looked similar to the one below (notice the dominance of the bluish color): The solution is to disable hardware acceleration in Flash Player settings (RMB -> Settings) just as shown here: After un-checking this option and refreshing the page all videos were back to normal: I’m not sure if I even want to know why one update could mess up so bad with the Flash Player....

April 28, 2012 · 1 min