Flash player not working in firefox

[Ioannis Vranos]

Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> Well, 8.10 sucks out loud on my system due to Intel chipset issues.
> So an upgrade is not always a good thing. The performance is radically
> worse than 8.04 (for Xorg, and especially Firefox which is borderline
> usable despite following every tweak I can find). 
> 
> In any case, my work Desktop is 8.04, and I very easily upgraded to
> Flash10 with just these steps:
> 
> $ killall firefox
> $ sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
> $ sudo dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb 
> 
> Then restart Firefox. To my pleasant surprise, it worked just fine.
> Even sound (which I've have also had problems with ever since 7.10).
> Sound gremlins of course are prone to re-appear at any time, so my joy
> may well be shortlived.


Well try 9.04 then. I tried to install 8.10 x64 in my new Acer Aspire 8920G laptop and it didn't recognise the 
network card during installation. 9.04 x64 worked OK. Also in my laptop many things are Intel's.



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