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I just installed the most recent Firefox update, and now my flash content is broken. Let me explain:
When I go someplace with any kind of Flash at all, instead of just starting like it normally does, it shows a large, gray Play arrow. When I click on it, the flash starts, but it's jerky and odd.
I tried to install Adobe flash player, but it doesn't seem to recognize that I have it installed. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Nope, that's OK, don't follow up. My problem is still not solved, but I guess I can just watch videos on my other computer.
First off, don't be an asshole, second off you should answer questions about computer specs if people ask.
To fix your problem, though I probably shouldn't tell you, is really simple. If you would have used google like any other noob out there should then I wouldn't have to be taking the time to do this, wait I won't I'll use search and post a link. Oh heck I'll do worse...
To get flash working the proper way, go to the adobe site, download flash for linux. If you need to figure out how to extract the .tar.bz2 GOOGLE IT. If you need to know where to put libflashplayer.so GOOGLE IT. Don't come on to a message board being rude expecting people to answer nice.
Yeah, sorry about me being a dick. This whole situation has me frustrated.
I downloaded the .tar.bz2 and extracted libflashplayer.so to usr/lib/firefox/plugins, and also to .mozilla/plugins. Nothing seemed to change in Firefox...
works just fine here. Use the package management tools provided by the distro you are using no need to download crap off the web like in windows. Depending on your distro that could be adept, synaptic, apt-get/aptitude, YAST, yum or any number of things.
Craig: I don't have a /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/. Should I create one and put libflashplayer.so in it?
Mushroomboy: When I go to Tools/Addons, it looks like I've got "Shockwave Flash 10.0" AND "9.0." I'm not sure how two different versions got on there, but maybe that's part of the problem? Come to think of it, there's a bunch of plugins on here that I don't think I installed... I have "Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux," "DixX Web Player," "Helix DNA Plugin," "Java Plugin," "Quicktime Plugin," "Totem Web Browser Plugin," "VLC Multimedia Plugin," and "Windows Media Player Plugin."
Disabling all of my plugins results in no flash working period, and turning on only "Shockwave Flash 9.0" brings flash back, but with the same jerkiness and gray Play arrow as before.
Turning on only "Shockwave Flash 10.0" results in no flash working either.
This method will install the latest flashplayer from the Ubuntu repositories, for Firefox, Konqueror, Mozilla, Epiphany and other browsers.
* Enable the Multiverse repository if you have not yet done so.
* Install the package flashplugin-nonfree.
* Restart your web browser. Flash should now work.
* After installing flashplugin-nonfree, sound in Flash will not work. To fix this, install libflashsupport.
The one nice thing about Ubuntu they have great documentation.
Craig: I don't have a /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/. Should I create one and put libflashplayer.so in it?
Mushroomboy: When I go to Tools/Addons, it looks like I've got "Shockwave Flash 10.0" AND "9.0." I'm not sure how two different versions got on there, but maybe that's part of the problem? Come to think of it, there's a bunch of plugins on here that I don't think I installed... I have "Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux," "DixX Web Player," "Helix DNA Plugin," "Java Plugin," "Quicktime Plugin," "Totem Web Browser Plugin," "VLC Multimedia Plugin," and "Windows Media Player Plugin."
Disabling all of my plugins results in no flash working period, and turning on only "Shockwave Flash 9.0" brings flash back, but with the same jerkiness and gray Play arrow as before.
Turning on only "Shockwave Flash 10.0" results in no flash working either.
AHA!!! That is the culprit I'm betting. Run synaptic and remove ALL packages that pertain to flash player, every one of them and then start over from scratch.
- Grab the proper libflashplayer.so 64bit/32bit from Adobe and put it in ~/.mozilla/plugins
- restart the browser
If that doesn't work then delete the libflashplayer.so file and run synaptic, search for flash and install flashplayer-nonfree I believe it is. But yes finding out how 2 versions of flash are installed would probably do you good... If you can't get both removed disable 9 and see if that helps.
Glad to be of help, I always tell people to do it this way first, you could also find out where your plugins folder for the whole system is so every user can have flash.... Though I find this way simple and easy to upgrade per user. I don't know why I like this way better, it just seems to work for me more than the .deb files.
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