Flash not working on new PC

[David Fletcher]

On Tuesday 11 Dec 2007, David McGlone wrote:
> >
> > No, I'm using Firefox.
> 
> Ok, did you put the flash plugin in the correct plugin folder for firefox?
> 
> -- 
> David M.
> 

Here's what seems silly - On the old laptop machine that I installed when 
Gutsy was in Beta, I think, or it might have been Release Candidate, I just 
used Add/Remove Programs to install the Flash player, did nothing else, and 
it "Just Worked". On this new machine, that I built a few days ago, I 
installed and updated Gutsy, used the Add/Remove Programs again. Java works 
just fine with Firefox - I can see the Nasa Orbital Tracker no problems, but 
Flash doesn't.

I used to have to mess around putting flash plugins into the correct folder 
with Fedora Core, which was a PITA because I always had to fix it again when 
something got upgraded. I thought all this was sorted out with Kubuntu.

Yes I can poke around in the Firefox plugin folders to make sure it's in the 
correct place, I expect, but you can't really expect Joe Public to go doing 
stuff like that, or (s)he'll just go right back to $soft. You can now order 
(when they're back in stock) Linux PCs from Tesco Direct 
http://direct.tesco.com/q/N.1999034$37/Nr.99.aspx for goodness sake, so it 
ought to "Just Work". I heard somewhere that the Tesco machines have Ubuntu 
installed.

Dave