Two Buggy Browsers

[Pete Vander Giessen]

  On 08/10/2010 02:00 PM, Nathan Bahn wrote:
> Chromium is displaying this on the Washington Post website:
> /"The following plug-in has crashed: 
> /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so"/
> (it won't play video)
> And no, sites like Veoh and YouTube do NOT display similar behavior.
> When I go to Synaptic Package Manager, I am unable to find 
> libflashplayer.so
> Chromium is 5.0.375.99 (51029)
>
> But at least Chromium will execute; Firefox won't even do that much.
> Synaptic Package Manager says that FF=3.6.8

Hi Nathan,

The package that handles flash in Linux is "flashplugin-installer".  
Said package is a script that a) downloads the latest flash from Adobe's 
website, and puts it in a sensible place where most browsers can find 
it, and b) transparently handles installing the 32 bit version of flash 
in a 64 bit OS (64 bit flash for Linux is no longer supported by Adobe).

I wouldn't start troubleshooting with the package manager, however.  
Some things to do:

1)  Clear Flash's cache by visiting this page:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

(It would be really nice if Adobe would provide a way of getting to this 
via a menu; for now, the above link is the "official" way of emptying 
the data that Flash stores on your computer.)

2)  Try running Firefox from the command line by opening a terminal, 
typing "firefox", and hitting Enter.  Watch the terminal output, as it 
may give you hints as to why Firefox is crashing.

~ PeteVG





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