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Old 05-09-2011, 09:34 PM   #1
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Adobe Flash and Firefox 4


Hiya

So has anyone had issues tryinn to get Adobe Flash to work in Firefox 4 when it seems to work fine in Firefox 3?

I canNOT get FF4 to work anything with Flash. I have reinstalled flash and still.. nothing.
 
Old 05-09-2011, 09:55 PM   #2
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Working with Firefox 4.0.1 and Flash without any problems. Slackware, 32 and 64 Bit.
 
Old 05-10-2011, 03:09 AM   #3
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Yeah, it works here too or slackware64.
 
Old 05-10-2011, 04:43 AM   #4
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Working fine on Slackware 64 multilib.
 
Old 05-10-2011, 05:04 AM   #5
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And yet another Slacker saying Flash works OK on both 32 & 64-bit versions. Is Raevyn running Slack or what?
 
Old 05-10-2011, 05:11 AM   #6
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And yet another Slacker saying Flash works OK on both 32 & 64-bit versions. Is Raevyn running Slack or what?
That's a good question
 
Old 05-10-2011, 05:35 PM   #7
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Yes it works, perhaps if you said what distro you are using you would get more detailed help.

$ apt-cache policy flashplayer-mozilla
flashplayer-mozilla:
Installed: 2:10.2.159.1-0.0
Candidate: 2:10.2.159.1-0.0
Version table:
*** 2:10.2.159.1-0.0 0
500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ unstable/non-free i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 ID:20110413222027
 
Old 05-11-2011, 08:41 PM   #8
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Hello!

Okay so to all of you I'm sorry I did not state my distribution.. I honestly didn't realize that it would be truly relevant for help regarding this specific matter. I will remember to include that information for the next question I ask. Oh! I can put it on my profile... I will update that then.

But I did figure out what was wrong. It was some odd incompatibility. What I did to fix it and how I even discovered the issue was because while going through the Firefox Addons pages (seriously just browsing), I came across a Flash fixer app called Flash Aid. It seems to fix FF4 issues with Ubuntu, my current distribution I am using, and after running it, flash based items work perfectly fine in FF4 and FF3, which I still sometimes use since some addons don't work yet in FF4.

Isnt that beyond strange?! Oh well.. so now if anyone else has this same problem come up, they can read through my talkativeness and see what might fix it! Yay I contributed to the forum! LOL

Okay, Ill shut up now. Thanks all!
 
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Thanks for posting your solution. Please mark this thread solved using the thread-tools on the top of this thread.
 
Old 05-12-2011, 08:40 AM   #10
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Yes, it is strange and new to me. I didn't know there was incompatibility between Ubuntu and FF ... go figure.
 
Old 05-12-2011, 09:25 AM   #11
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Yes, it is strange and new to me. I didn't know there was incompatibility between Ubuntu and FF ... go figure.
Its Ubuntu isn't it supposed to break things?

Makes absolutely no sense for Flash not to work in Firefox 4 in Ubuntu but to work just fine in other distros, including Debian unless the Ubuntu devs screwed something up.

Heck Flash works in
iceweasel:
Installed: 5.0~a2+20110509042008-1
Candidate: 5.0~a2+20110509042008-1
with no problems in Debian.
 
Old 05-12-2011, 09:38 PM   #12
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You know whats odd to me is, it must be like a fairly common problem if someone went out of their way to make a fix for it outside of the Ubuntu team. Well I think so at least haha
 
  


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