Oh yeah,  found this on ubuntuforums "I fixed this problem by removing ia32-libs, flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper, then installing ia32-libs_2.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb from <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...e/i/ia32-libs/">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...e/i/ia32-libs/</a> (It is an older version than what installs in apt-get), then installing flashplugin-nonfree. Thanks." I followed it, and now it works =D <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Dave Morley <<a href="mailto:davmor2@gmail.com">davmor2@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 17:21 +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote: > Matthew Wild wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson > > <<a href="mailto:christopherrowson@gmail.com">christopherrowson@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > >> Hi there, > >> > >>  My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's > >>  websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as > >>  this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP > >>  back onto it to see the if it would make any difference for him. > >> > >>  I've just installed Firefox 3 Beta 5, Flash and a Java runtime > >>  environment and seen how it runs. > >> > >>  Strangely Firefox runs about twice as fast under Win XP than on Hardy > >>  (although Hardy is on a laptop which is twice as powerful). Rendering > >>  and application response are greatly improved under Windows and Flash > >>  content flys. > >> > >>  I'm bamboozled to say the least! > >> > >>  Are these particular applications created specifically for Windows > >>  then ported to Linux? It's wierd, I've tried this on different > >>  hardware and find it to be the case on the machines I've tested. > >> > >>  I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why > >>  it would be so? > >> > >> > > > > If you are only talking about when flash pages are open, then yes, I > > notice it too. My CPU is constantly at about 10%. > > > > This is to be expected, Flash is closed-source after all, and you are > > trusting a company that probably doesn't see its Linux user-base as > > significant as the Windows one. > > > > Can't wait for Gnash to become a real alternative, until then I use > > Flash as little as possible :) > > > > Matthew. > > > > > Yeah, I cant wait for gnash to gather speed... Im sick of having to > force 32bit firefox, just so I can go on youtube! > </div></div>You don't need to with hardy it installs npwrapper which allows 32bit apps to run inside 64bit so flash and wine both work. -- Seek That Thy Might Know -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> -- Mr JE Grabham