Flash video not playing always in Ubuntu 9.10 x64

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 21:44 +0200, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> On 2010-05-26 19:46, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> > OS: Ubuntu 9.10 x64.
> >
> >
> >
> > Flash video doesn't play always under Firefox. For example, the video of
> > this site:
> >
> > http://www.whatbrowser.org/en/
> >
> >
> > doesn't start playing, when one clicks with the mouse under Firefox.
> > However it begins when one presses the spacebar.
> >
> >
> > Also it plays OK when under Google Chrome.
> >
> >
> > Any ideas on how to fix this?
> 
> You could disable desktop effects, setting them to "none". Speeds things 
> up as well. (The reason Chrome works is that it comes with its own 
> flashplayer).


Thank you for the tip! 


It works, now I will remove Chrome.




Regards,


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