Chrome Updated, Now Flash Won't Work In Firefox

[A.D. Burrows]

On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 07:32:07 PM Dimitris Kardarakos wrote:

> 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!

~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxx.default turned out to be a directory, so I
disabled Gnash from Ff's AddOns menu; no change. I even tried enabling
Gnash and diasbling Adobe; at least I got controls, but no joy on apps
actually running.

With a little extra help from you, I apt-get purged Firefox, Chrome
and Chromium, Gnash and the Adobe flash player, deleted the .mozilla
directory, then re-installed Firefox and Adobe. Just to be sure, I ran
apt-get autoremove then restarted Lucid. I first realized something
was wrong when I ran Firefox and saw the same theme as I'd been using
before the purge. All my bookmarks were still there, too. Sure enough,
no joy playing a Flash app, (and I tried three different ones.) I
repeated the purging procedure and noticed this time that apt-get
hadn't deleted two directories because they were not empty;
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins and /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins. After
purging everything, I went back and deleted them manually, (sudo rm
-rf.) Again I did apt-get autoremove and tried Ff. Again the same
theme and bookmarks were there and again, no joy on Flash apps.

But I did find a single Flash movie I could play; a short advert
running in a small window. So apparently Adobe Shockwave _does_ work,
just not on very much! And I remembered something else; I _think_ I
had Firefox using Chrome's Flash player before somehow, which would
explain why the update killed Flash on Firefox.

Dimitris, you've been a great help to me and I want to tell you again
that I appreciate all your help. So what now?