Youtube/Firefox Foulup??

[Basil Chupin]

On 21/01/12 02:10, John Graddy wrote:
> On 01/19/2012 09:43 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
[pruned]

>> Look, I'll give you this link and see if this comes up:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ft5Drv2Bw
>>
>>
>> (from the movie Natural Born Killers - listen to it and the lyrics.)
>>
>> BC
>>
> The video that you sent did exactly the same as the video in my 
> original email.
>
> I disabled the plugin Flash 11.1 and both play just fine.
>
> I don't understand!  When I disable a plugin what does it do?  Remove 
> the plugin?  Restore the previous version?  I didn't thing youtube 
> videos would work at all without the flashplayer installed.

Sounds like that there is a mix-up in which libflashplayer.so is being 
used by your Flashplayer.

In Firefox, type this in the URL box (the one where you type in, eg, 
www.memtest.org):

about:plugins

and a list of your plugins will be shown. Have a look at which 
Flashplayer version is installed and used by Firefox The latest is 11.1 
r102. It will also be using the file libflashplayer.so. Now, go thru the 
full list of the plugins because there may be another version of 
Flashplayer still hanging around - make sure that it is or is not (I bet 
that there is v10 still hanging around - and this is also using *a* 
libflashplayer.so file). Check this out to start with.

What has happened in the past, at least at my end, is that after 
installing Flashplayer the symlink to point to the correct, latest, 
libflashplayer.so was not altered and the latest version of Flash was 
picking up the old libflashplayer.so and....naturally Flash would not work.

Check about:plugins to begin with.

BC

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