Two Buggy Browsers

[daniel mcfarland]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:37 PM, daniel mcfarland <
> daniel.mcfarland at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Angus MacGyver <
>>> macgyver at calibre-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 17:00 -0400, Nathan Bahn wrote:
>>>> > Attention all--
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Not certain this is the correct forum for these problems, but right
>>>> > now I no longer give a damn.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > 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
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Any thoughts/suggestions will be mightily appreciated.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Not sure this is the browsers themselves .... but flash..
>>>>
>>>> Are you running 64bit by any chance ?
>>>>
>>>> AM
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>>> AM--
>>> "System" -> "About Ubuntu" only says that I have 10.04 LTS -- no mention
>>> of bit numbers.
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>> From the command line run "uname -a" and post the output.
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>> If it's x86_64 ; then you're running 64-bit linux.
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>> If it's i686 then you're running 32-bit.
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>> (iirc)
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> D.M. & P.V.G.--
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> nat at nat-desktop:~$ uname -a
> Linux nat-desktop 2.6.32-24-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 28 06:07:29 UTC
> 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
> nat at nat-desktop:~$ firefox
> nat at nat-desktop:~$
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  Well there you have it.  32-bit.  I have no idea what the original
problem, or content of this thread was
  but I feel pretty darned good in knowing that you are running a 32-bit
ubuntu box.

  Flash should would fine (probably).

  -d
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