[Bug 297171] [NEW] [ubuntu intrepid] Guest cannot watch flash in firefox when flash-plugin originally installed via firefox

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When the main user is running firefox on a fresh instll and tries to
watch a flash video e.g. on youtube, it does not work because the plugin
is missing. That user can install those missing plugins as offered by
firefox, and it works. However, when switching to a "Guest" account, the
flash plugin is NOT accessible by the guest; flash videos do not run.
The missing plugin install is offered again, but eventually fails
(understandable as the guest should not modify anything, but why is it
offered then?).

Checking under Synaptic I find that the Adobe Flash Player plugin is
offered twice, and none is checked as installed. Installing the "adobe-
flashplugin" from the archive.canonical.com/partner repository
eventually allows both user and guest to watch flash videos.

The second offer is "flashplugin-nonfree" from the multiverse
repository. I was unable to figure out, if there is any difference to
the one I installed (I did not try it), but believe there is not. Then
why is the same thing offered twice under slightly different names? One
should should be removed, as it is only confusing. And if there is a
difference, it needs to be made clear what it is.

And actually there is a third way, which resulted in the error I
described above. This one is the "natural" way for a user to install the
plugin, and should be installed in a way to allow all users to use it.

~$ uname -a
Linux aa1 2.6.27-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 6 17:33:54 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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

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[ubuntu intrepid] Guest cannot watch flash in firefox when flash-plugin originally installed via firefox
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/297171
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