wine users - May 2012 - Wine causes Flash instabilities

I don't really know whether I should be posting this here, on Firefox forums
or on Linux Mint forums...

Whenever I start foobar2000 (a music player) under WINE, and I open a web page
in Firefox (native build, not running under WINE) containing anything that
requires flash, weird things start to happen.

Flash videos start playing but there is no sound, Firefox crashes whenever I try
to exit a website in question, all kinds of graphical artifacts start to appear
in my system, fonts in any WINE applications become transparent - instead of
font color i see the color of whatever is under the window, and a lot of other
things.

When I exit foobar2000 everything goes back to normal. If Firefox was frozen -
it unfreezes, graphical glitches disappear (except the ones that affected
desktop wallpaper).

I use WINE 1.4, my OS is Linux Mint 13 MATE x64, and I use latest Firefox
version.

I really have no idea what causes it... I would be really grateful if someone
could help me.

Thank you in advance.

MaTi wrote:
> I don't really know whether I should be posting this here, on Firefox
forums or on Linux Mint forums...
> 
> Whenever I start foobar2000 (a music player) under WINE, and I open a web
page in Firefox (native build, not running under WINE) containing anything that
requires flash, weird things start to happen.

You didn't say what version of Flash, but there are serious bugs in the
Linux 11.2 versions of Flash, and Adobe's response has been that they no
longer support Linux.
>From the Wine end, try running the app in a virtual desktop.

So many to take care of!I know little about flash!