Newbie questions

[Wade Smart]

Knapp wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Leonard Chatagnier
> <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> --- On Tue, 10/6/09, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Newbie questions
>>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>> Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 11:08 AM
>>>>> 2) flash seems to work but
>>> only somewhat.
>> A more descriptive comment on what you mean by "only somewhat"
>> would be of help to the list in determining just what is not
>> right with your flash.
>>
>> Now I have no problem using
>>>>> firefox or opera. I'm starting to think that this
>>> is really dependent on
>>>>> the website itself
>> It may be the case but flashplugin on Ubuntu does work in
>> spite of your issues.  See below.
>>
>>> I have fought this battle and given up. Flash is not open
>>> source and
>>> it sucks, end of story. BUT! You can get flash sites to
>>> work by
>>> installing MS firefox and then installing MS Flash. I will
>>> all be
>>> running under Wine and it will all work. Sady, Ubuntu still
>>> has some
>>> holes but they are mostly easily fixed.
>>>
>> True.
>>
>>> Don't assume that most of your other problems are related.
>>> THey are
>>> likely drive problems and each will need its own fix.
>>>
>> Not to be just contradictory, but I have firefox and several
>> other browsers using Ubuntu flashplugin and some with the
>> latest flashplayer from the Adobe site and flash plays well
>> on all of them.  I've never used wine or ever plan to. The OP
>> should post to the list, using a more appropriate exact subject,
>> and post details of just what he did to install flash, his OS
>> version any and all error messages playing flash. I don't mean
>> to say that flash doesn't have problems in getting it to work
>> sometimes, I've had mine too, but if the OP post his problem
>> with the details needed, someone on the list can help to get it
>> right.  HTH,
>> Leonard Chatagnier
>> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 
> I have posted the problems to the list and there was no answer.
> So to recap.
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14)
> Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.14
> 
> Running the current 64 bit flash.
> To get to the web site that does not work with Ubuntu FF go facebook
> then go to Texas Hold'em Poker and then click change server on the top
> right, a list of servers should pop up. It does not on my system or my
> brothers system (9.04 64 bit fresh install) .
> 
> 
> 

Im on 9.04 and it comes up on mine.

Wade

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