Latest Adobe Flash plugin just installed

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 13:06 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 10/02/2011 07:19, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Yorvyk<yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>  wrote:
> >> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:51:22 +0000
> >> Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  wrote:
> 
> [pruned]
> 
> >>> On 9 February 2011 06:23, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
> >>>> A few minutes ago the Update Manager (for Maverick) installed the latest
> >>>> Adobe Flash plugin v 10.2.152.27.........and now I cannot see any videos (on
> >>>> YouTube, BBC, et al).
> >>>>
> >>>> The moral of this story is: do NOT install the new plugin.
> >> No problems here, in either FF or Chromium.
> >>
> > I'm not seeing that version of the flash player at all:
> >
> >
> > Basil, which Maverick are you running (32 or 64 bit) and where did
> > that update come from?
> 
> I am running 32-bit Maverick with the latest nVidia driver which, 
> together with the adobe flashplugin, came from Canonical via the Update 
> Manager.
> 
> An interesting thing: the Synaptic Package Manager shows that the new 
> plugin is installed and yet in Firefox's list of installed plugins the 
> old (v10.1r-something) was showing - the new plugin was not recognised[1].

You probably have also installed adobe flash via web.

In my Firefox plugins, adobe flash never appears.



> 
> [1] After I checked this out I went and changed the symlink in 
> /etc/alternatives to point to the old plugin so I now once again can 
> view the videos on YouTube and the BBC.





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