definite issues with flash plugin(s) on lynx

[Wendy Galovich]

On Tue, 04 May 2010 09:11:04 -0400
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:

>    starting with a fresh install of 10.04 on a gateway NV52 laptop,  
> system comes up nicely, fire up FF, pop over to youtube.com
> (knowing, of course, that trying to play anything will fail but just
> wanting to check the flash plugin install process and how well it
> works), when i select to install a flash plugin, i'm presented with
> the following choices:
> 
>    * Adobe
>    * Swfdec
>    * Gnash
> 
>    for fun, i select "gnash", it apparently installs but any attempt  
> to play a video fails with an error message.  so, the first
> question, is the gnash player actually working for anyone?
> 
>    in any event, since that failed miserably, remove gnash and
> install the official adobe player, which will allow me to watch a
> video but, weirdly, none of the video buttons seem to work -- can't
> stop the video, can't adjust audio, can't dismiss the google ads
> dialog.
> 
>    anyone else having these issues?
> 
> rday
> 
> 

Did you remove swfdec as well?  One or two releases ago I found I
couldn't get firefox to use the adobe flashplayer - it kept trying to
default to swfdec regardless of what I did.  When I uninstalled swfdec
adobe player was then able to run.



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Wendy
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