flash stopped working after update?!

[Tim Tebbit]

Karl Auer wrote:
> Firefox was updated recently, and since then (approximately, I'm not
> 100% sure) several sites that serve flash files don't work for me any
> more
> 
> These sites were working 100% fine up until that update. An example site
> would be www.ebaumsworld.com. The site shows a blank space where the
> video would be, and does not complain about missing plugins or anything.
> 
> If I download one of the files I can play it fine in (say) Movie Player.
> 
> I have reinstalled flashplugin-nonfree. This is firefox 3.0.13, as in
> the Canonical repositories, but the firefox-3.5 package has the
> identical problem.
> 
> I am mystified. Any ideas? Google reveals some similar problems, but no
> exact match. This is on Jaunty amd64.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
> PS: YouTube videos continue to play just fine; not sure if those are
> flash...?
> 
> 


No idea.. I only manually install flash.  Give that a shot?

Download the tarball from adobe, unpack and move libflashplayer.so to 
~/.mozilla/plugins/

Good luck.