64 Bit 11.04: Firefox 5 and Flash 10.3r181 low quality and flickering issues @Youtube and MySpace

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 11:49 -0700, Jordon Bedwell wrote: 
> On Mon, July 18, 2011 11:35 am, Sven Aluoor wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have with 64 Bit Ubuntu 11.04, Firefox 5, Flash 10.3r181 low quality
> > and flickering issues at big video portals (Youtube, MySpaceTV,...).
> >
> > Do I have some sort of Open Source flash installed (not from Adobe) per
> > default?
> 
> No you do not unless you installed it yourself.  Perhaps try the newly
> updated 64bit Flash directly from Adobe (omit the lib/kde4 if you do not
> have KDE) as it will most likely work better for you than the wrapper with
> 32bit Flash.  http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11.html
> 
> Some people do have performance issues with Flash on a 64bit systems.

Maybe he could crank open synaptic for himself, type flash in the search
bar, so he would know for sure what he has and doesn't have. Of course,
if he went outside of the repos then it's anybodies guess and his
problem. But finding out for sure isn't rocket science with Ubuntu.
Maybe the OP is a new user? Ric


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