Chrome Updated, Now Flash Won't Work In Firefox

[Dimitris Kardarakos]

Well, Adobe will not release Linux versions of Flash anymore. But this 
does not mean that the last release (11.2) is not functional :)

It's normal to see all installed plugins in Firefox addons menu. 
Unfortunately, a conflict seems to have occurred.

I'd suggest the following:

1. Try disabling the flash players plugins apart from the Adobe one 
(Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202), either from Firefox addons menu or, if you 
are risk prone, editing ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxx.default

2. If this does not work, try removing completely (purge) firefox, 
chrome and flash plugins, and perform a new installation of firefox and 
adobe flash plugin.

Good luck!



On 07/10/2012 05:27 PM, A.D. Burrows wrote:
> Once again, my thanks to Dimitris for his help as well as to Jose.
>
> On Monday, July 09, 2012 12:33:17 PM Jos? Queiroz wrote:
>> Did you tried just forcing reinstall of flash plugin?
>>
>> *sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer*
> Thanks for your attention, Jose. I was pretty sure I'd tried that, (I
> made what I thought was a good faith effort with Google before asking
> here), but I tried it again anyway using the apt-get call you
> suggested; no joy. I performed apt-get update, (three times, the
> second time because apt-get suggested it and the third because the
> second time it didn't get all the packages expected), then apt-get
> upgrade, then tried a forced reinstall you gave me again; still no
> joy.
>
> BTW, when I did the forced reinstall, the package it installed was
> adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.236.orig.tar.gz in case that matters.
>
> On Monday, July 09, 2012 09:10:02 PM Dimitris Kardarakos wrote:
>> There is no problem with library ownership, since libraries are used
>> through the dynamic loader, not directly. And the files/links seems OK.
>> If you go to "Add Ons" (Firefox menu) what flash related plugins can you
>> see?
> Thanks once again, Dimitris. In the Add-ons Manager, under extensions,
> I see Flash-Aid 2.2.3 - "Remove conflicting Flash installations and
> install the appropriate version according ot Ubuntu system
> architecture."
> Under Plug-ins, I see Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 and Shockwave Flash
> 10.1 r999 Gnash 0.8.7 ...should there be two?
>
> Gentlemen, one other thing occurs to me. IIRC, Adobe no longer
> supports Linux. Is it possible that they planted a non-functional
> player in the repositories? But if that were the case, I would have
> expected many more complaints like mine.
>

-- 
Dimitris