<div class="gmail_quote">2012/7/8 A.D. Burrows <<a href="mailto:burrowsad@gmail.com" target="_blank">burrowsad@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Thanks first of all to anybody for your kind attention. Last Thursday, (28/JN/2012), Google Chrome updated. Ever since then, Chrome will not load and Flash applications will not play in Firefox. (Firefox V13.0.1 is my regular browser, I only keep Chrome around in case Ff can't do something I need.) When I try to load Chrome, the mouse pointer turns into a bouncy Chrome icon, a Chrome bar appears in Task Manager, then the mouse pointer reverts, the bar disappears and no Chrome window ever opens. In Firefox, when for instance I try to watch a Youtube video, all I see is a black box which allows me the option to block that video and nothing else. I've tried playing other Flash apps, none of them work. I have Flash-Aid 2.2.3 installed in Ff. I tried using it to re-install Adobe Flash Player, both stable and beta versions; no joy. I tried using apt-get to un-install and re-install Google Chrome, (I accidentally installed Chromium instead and it won't play Flash apps either); no joy. I tried using apt-get to un-install and re-install the flash player, several times and in several ways; no joy. I tried using KPackageKit to install Gnash, (because it's easier and it was possible); no joy. I even tried installing KlamAV in case I took a virus that's affecting Flash; I'm having trouble with the installation writing to it's own directories, but that's a matter for another time and anyway I was just being thorough. I'm running an AMD XP-M 1900+ system with 768MB RAM and a Geforce 5500 card, driver version 173. I'm using Kubuntu V10.04, KDE V4.4.5, core version 2.6.32-41-generic. I'm pretty sure everything else works. Please, how can I get Flash apps to work again? (Please note that I'm not a very advanced user, I'll probably need some hand-holding through this.) </blockquote><div> Hi, have you tried to "uninstall" the flash-plugin installer and "install" the proprietary one (you find it in the repositories)? For me, it works (Kubuntu 12.04 updated, with PIV 2.8 / RAM 1 GB) Ciao -- </div></div> Valter *Open Source is better!* KDE: <a href="http://www.kde.org/" target="_blank">www.kde.org</a> Kubuntu: <a href="http://www.kubuntu.org/" target="_blank">www.kubuntu.org</a> LibreOffice: <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/" target="_blank">www.libreoffice.org</a>