BBC iplayer no longer functions in Firefox

[Graham Watkins]

On 18/06/11 09:18, Colin Law wrote:
> On 18 June 2011 09:12, Graham Watkins<shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com>  wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>
>> In the last few days, whenever I open the BBC iplayer  instead of getting a
>> picture from the program with a start button to click, I get a black screen
>> with no start button.  This started just before a recent update to the Adobe
>> flash plugin.
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu 10.4, Firefox 3.6.17 and Adobe Flash Player version
>> 10.3.181.26
> It is working ok for me with exactly those versions.  Have you tried
> when logged in as a different user to see if it is something in your
> settings or profile that has got messed up?
>
> Also try disabling all the firefox extensions (Tools>  Addons>
> Extensions) in case one of them is causing the problem.

Thanks for the response.  Tried logging in as guest and it worked fine.  
Went back to regular user and started Firefox in safe mode - it worked 
fine.  Started Firefox in usual way and disabled Adblock Plus - it 
worked fine.

It would be good though if I could get Adblock to play nicely .  A quick 
google shows that this is a recognised problem although a cursory glance 
at some of the search results does not reveal a quick fix. Should I come 
across  anything that will sort it, I'll post details here.

Cheers,

Graham