Chrome Updated, Now Flash Won't Work In Firefox

[Dimitris Kardarakos]

Try to find which firefox related processes run upon opening a utube 
video ( e.g $ ps -elf | grep firefox). Normally, plugin-container should 
use the library mentioned in the plugins config file (flash in our case) 
and play the video. See if there is something strange there.

Or try to see what happens if plugin-container is disabled. 
Firefox->about:config -> dom.ipc.plugins.enabled, set to false.

On 07/17/2012 06:50 PM, Waleed Hamra wrote:
> On 7/17/2012 3:27 AM, A.D. Burrows wrote:
>> On Monday, July 16, 2012 12:58:41 AM Dimitris Kardarakos wrote:
>>
>>> There are double entries for libflashplayer  library, in your plugin
>>> list. Try to remove the second one from firefox menu. If in firefox
>>> menu just one is shown, try removing it from the pluginreg.dat file.
>>
>> There was only one entry for a flash player in Firefox's Addons menu.
>> I tried deleting the second entry from the pluginreg.dat file; no joy.
>> I'd saved the file as pluginreg.dat.old first; I retrieved it and
>> deleted the first entry, then saved as pluginreg.dat and tried again;
>> no joy on playing apps, but loading pages with Flash movies no longer
>> causes Ff to crash.
>>
>> Incidentally, that one video I found, (the advert), still plays in a
>> diminished, YT-like window, although actual YT videos still only show
>> up as black boxes.
>>
>> Dimitris, your patience through this ordeal has been an inspiration.
>> Is there anything else to try?
>>
>
>
> well, i'm not dimitris, and i'm afraid i havent been following this 
> thread much, but i do have an advice that might be of use.
> there's an add-on for linux firefox, called "flash aid" or "flashaid", 
> it's job is to help install flash on a computer, make it work in 
> firefox, and remove any conflicting *other* flash libraries it may 
> find. it also enables hardware acceleration for flash. i advice you to 
> install the addon, restart firefox, and go through its wizard, choose 
> between flash from ubuntu repo, or latest beta from adobe (more 
> advisable, since it's the last version to be made available anyway, 
> adobe dicontinued linux flash for non-chrome browsers) and of course, 
> check the options to enable acceleration and disable other conflicting 
> libraries.
> hope this helps.
>

-- 
Dimitris