Chrome Updated, Now Flash Won't Work In Firefox -- SOLVED

[Basil Chupin]

On 28/08/12 01:28, A.D. Burrows wrote:
> I'd like first to thank everybody who tried to help, Dimitris and
> Basil especially. The solution was to downgrade the player, as the
> same problem seems to be happening more often these days.
>
> I followed the advice found here...
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1953796
> ...under "2 - Downgrade Flash." I started by finding the player. It
> wasn't where I'd expected it to be, it was at
> /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so rather than in my
> /mozilla directory, but "find" located it easily enough. I found an
> older version of the player here...
> https://github.com/downloads/webgapp...ux.i386.tar.gz
> ...renamed the latest player "libflashplayer.so.bad" and copied the
> older player into the same directory. Presto, flash plays. I have
> YouTube videos and other flash apps again. Yay! I understand that
> there might be a security issue with the older player, but I can live
> with that.
> -- Allan

When you installed Ubuntu, and before you first tried to use Firefox, 
you copied over your old /.mozilla directory into /home didn't you? YES 
or NO is my question of the day :-) .

BC

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