Two Buggy Browsers
Pete Vander Giessen
petevg at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 21:31:48 UTC 2010
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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