video plugins for Firefox

[Gerald I. Evenden]

I'm running Firefox /3.0.12 on hardy 8.04 x86_64.

A few months ago I tried to update plugins to handle some of the newer videos 
but had a great deal of difficulty and thought I had lost Firefox altogether.

Has anything changed to facilitate FlashPlayer and other updates for the 
x86_64 series.  Most of the Google results are dated and I hove no idea which 
may be sufficiently recent to be applicable.

Pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thank-you.

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