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I can become a hero if I can figure out how to make those stupid videos play from TMZ on a Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit. Have installed adobe flash without any luck. Is this a 32 vs 64 bit problem with the only solution getting rid of 64 Firefox and re-installing a 32 Firefox?
They play fine on a 64 Suse 11 installation from a 64 Firefox.
I can't even touch anything flash with my 64 bit debian. There are a few solutions... but they all are a pain in the a$$. I really wish someone (achem... adobe...) would spend some time working on a 64 bit solution for this. It is 2008 and 64 bit OS is here to stay.
You probably can download and play flash movies using wine + windows flash player (debug standalone flash "projector"). BUt that won't make them visible in browser.
After updates from Ubuntu...they requested a re-start...which I did. Assumed that would be the only re-start needed...wrong. When I found that TMZ and Youtube played fine but videos from CNN, MSNBC, ABC etc did not..I, in desperation, decided to re-start the system ONE MORE time. It worked.
Oh...the Linux learning curve....I've been at it now for 3-4 months and find crossing new Linux frontiers is beginning to be fun. Sorry if I've taken up too much space here but a 70 year old geezer..with too much time on his hands...is having a ball.
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