Upgrades and Flash
Bart Silverstrim
bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Wed Feb 4 13:02:54 UTC 2009
Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Tue, 2/3/09, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>
>> Subject: Re: Upgrades and Flash
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 8:29 PM
>> Chris Mohler wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Bart Silverstrim
>>> <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> About:plugins gives...
>>>> x-shockwave-flash is libflashplayer.so, Shockwave
>> Flash 10.0 r15
>>>> video/flv is libtotem-basic-plugin.so, Totem
>> 2.24.3 plugin
>>>> Java is libjavaplugin_oji.so, Java(TM) Plug-in
>> 1.6.0_10
>>>> Futuresplash is also handled by the
>> libflashplayer.so plugin.
>>> Try either:
>>> A - temporarily rename your ~/.firefox folder or
>>> B - create a new user and log in as them
>>>
>>> And try youtube again - then you will know if it's
>> related to your
>>> settings/extensions/etc or if it's system-wide...
>> Interesting. Did a mv ./.mozilla ./.mozilla.bak and re-ran
>> Firefox. Of
>> course my bookmarks, etc., are gone, but youtube played
>> fine.
>>
>> Hmm...
>>
>>
> Interesting indeed. Would dpkg-reconfigure
> run with the OP's original .mozailla dir in place be an appropriate thing to do? I would like to know.
I went through and deleted sets of temp files. After poking around for a
bit, it started working.
I'm really really curious as to why something in temp directories or
cache would have made youtube burp like that but not other "movie" sites!
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