Flash freezes 64bit 10.04

[Karl Larsen]

On 07/11/2010 06:32 PM, Rick Berger wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 15:20 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>    
>> On 07/11/2010 02:53 PM, Rick Berger wrote:
>>      
>>> I just upgraded my Gateway SX2800-01c quad Q8300 with nVidia GeForce GT
>>> 220 graphics from 64 bit 9.10 to 10.04. And the proverbial problems of
>>> Flash have popped up as usual. After watching 2 to 5 minutes of video in
>>> either Firefox or Chrome the video freezes, audio continues for about 10
>>> -15 seconds and the whole system locks up. Can't even do a Ctrl-Alt-F1
>>> to get a command login prompt.
>>>
>>> Flash seemed to be stable in 9.10 AMD64, is there a way to roll back to
>>> that in 10.04? Or has someone written up a work around?
>>>        
>> Which flash version do you have installed? Which version of Firefox?
>> Also, do you have a url for the flash that is giving you problems?
>> Sometimes it's just bad network connections.
>>
>>
>>
>>      
> Adobe Flash Player plugin installer version 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3
> and Firefox 3.6.6. I've had to uninstall the plugin because it freezes
> up my whole system to the point where I have to turn the power off and
> on. It really doesn't matter what url I use.
>
>
>    

         To make Firefox 3.6.6 work you need to do this: and follow 
instructions:

Post #5 from this link:
http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1520934 might help.

Running this will remove the old Firefox 3.0 flash and load the same 
flash for version 3.6.6


73 Karl


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