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

[Nicholas Schwartz]

1) If there is a noscript Firefox extension installed I did not install
it. From the "Add/Remove Applications" window, and searching on
"firefox extensions" I found only "Ubuntu extension for firefox". I
presume that has been installed since the operating system was
installed.  Is this definitive? Or is there some command that generates
a complete list of extensions and their characteristics?

Incidentally, I reinstalled Seamonkey and all flash videos on every site
I tried work fine with it. This seems to be strictly a Firefox problem.
I am not behind a proxy.

2) All flash videos on several web sites fail to run and instead display
similar messages: i.e. to the effect, "download the latest Flash
plugin." Besides Youtube, the Colbert Report site's videos fail to run,
as I mentioned in my original bug report. I also checked the Daily show
site with the same result: fail with Firefox, work with Seamonkey.

3) I installed, removed, and reinstalled the Flash plugin several different ways including aptitude and apt-get. Javascript is enabled in Preferences in Firefox.
Incidentally, though I originally wrote that I removed and reinstalled Firefox, I don't think I did. It seems though remove with aptitude and apt-get look like they ran to a succesful completion, apparently other packages that depend of firefox won't let it be removed.

--- On Fri, 12/12/08, goto <bugmenot at mailinator.com> wrote:
From: goto <bugmenot at mailinator.com>
Subject: [Bug 307381] Re: Can't play videos anymore; get Flashplayer message.
To: nicholas.schwartz at att.net
Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 3:24 PM

Do you use a noscript extension for firefox or are you behind a proxy
that could filter flash or javascript? Does not one single flash page
work or does only youtube for example not work? Did you already try to
reinstall the flash plugin via synaptic?

** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
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

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