Flash hasn't been working on my computer since July or so, and I'm not sure why. It started the day I downloaded a sign language dictionary program to use with Wine, which never worked so I think I got rid of it and just kept the flv files that were included and intelligently named. I don't see why that would cause the problem, but I'm including it for completeness.

Most websites in Opera don't load the flash at all, i just see a white box.

I've tried uninstalling flash, reinstalling flash, upgrading to flash 10, nothing.

hannah@Hannah:~$ locate libflashplayer
/home/hannah/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/plugins/libflashplayer.so


I'm running Debian, Lenny. Use Awesome as my window manager (which is irrelevant to this post, but it's a nice window manager)

hi

firstly a fast loading test page ...you must see blue line going up and down in word = ultrasounds
http://www.ultrasounds.com/

2) since you have adobe...maybe its old?
this page will test what you have...assuming you have enable flash in your browser
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/

when I d/load the latest I use the tar.gz from here
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

unpack it and move old flashplayer out of your plugin folder and move the new one

with browser closed...then restart to retest pls.

2) my pathway to a downloaded mozilla firefox (~ iceweasel) is
/home/gordy/firefox305/plugins

notice there is no dot folder pathway which may be your only issue?

of course I have no multiple uses so fox is downloaded to home folder and unpacked there....yours could be

/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so

but definately no dots in home folder ok?

Awesome, I was able to fix it. Following the troubleshooting steps you gave me, I was able to find something else that was causing the problem:

The problem was caused by /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflash-mozplugin.so, which was identifying itself as Flash 4.0 compatible. I got rid of that and put libflashplayer.so in that directory as well.

I can watch Youtube again! Yay!