Updates broke Flash player

Ryanms3030 · 09-20-2014, 12:14 PM

Hello,

I'm running Debian on my wife's desktop computer. She was prompted to run updates a few days ago and did so and since then she can't watch any flash content in browsers. We've tried Chrome and Ice Weasel and it's broken in both, get a Shockwave crashed message.

I uninstalled Gnash plug in and then I installed flash from Adobe in the command line. Still having problems. Is there anyway to determine what update broke it or how to fix this?

coralfang · 09-20-2014, 02:01 PM

First thing i'd do is try deleting these folders:
~/.adobe/ ~/.macromedia/

It's fixed several crashes for me when updating flash in the past.

jdkaye · 09-20-2014, 02:01 PM

I thought Chrome and Iceweasel (Firefox) used different types of flashplayers. Doesn't Chrome use pepperflashplayer? and Iceweasel, flashplayer
jdk