Youtube/Firefox Foulup??

[Basil Chupin]

On 21/01/12 13:24, John Graddy wrote:
> On 01/20/2012 06:50 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> 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
>>
> when I do the "about:plugins", I get:
>
> application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf
> application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl
>
>
> What is that all about?

File formats (file extensions) used by Adobe.

What you need is the bit ABOVE this which shows which version of Flash 
you have installed.

BC

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