The best solution/workaround I found is to create an executable script (eg: start_firefox) with the following lines (1, 2):
#!/bin/sh<br />
export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libGL.so.1"
/home/alexb/apps/firefox/firefox
chmod +x start_firefox
./start_firefox'
Another solution is to disable the hardware acceleration in Flash (probably a bad solution):
- Right click on the embedded Flash window inside Firefox (flash video)
- Settings…
- go to the first tab
- un-check “Enable hardware acceleration”
Now you should be able to go full screen…
Here is the version of the software I was using.
- Flash v10,0,15,3
- Firefox 3.0.5 and 3.5.2
- NVIDIA video driver 180.22
- Kernel 2.6.27.7-smp