[Bug 307381] [NEW] Can't play videos anymore; get Flashplayer message.

[Nicholas Schwartz]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I get the following message:

"Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of
Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player."

when I try to play YouTube videos and a

"Install Adobe Flash Player" message when I try to play Colbert Report videos
 even though Javascript IS enabled in Firefox, and I installed FlashPlayer. 

I was able to play videos a few weeks ago. I installed VLC some time ago
and Thunderbird (which also installed SeaMonkey).Thinking that they may
have triggered this problem I removed them and reinstalled Firefox and
Flashplayer with no change in the symptoms. I do not know what elso to
try.

1)
Description:	Ubuntu 8.04
Release:	8.04

2)
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

adobe-flashplugin:
  Installed: 10.0.12.36-1hardy1
  Candidate: 10.0.12.36-1hardy1
  Version table:
 *** 10.0.12.36-1hardy1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) I expected the videos to start playing.

4) I got the messages described above.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 11 23:48:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Can't play videos anymore; get Flashplayer message.
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