Youtube/Firefox Foulup??

[John Graddy]

On 01/20/2012 08:37 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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
when I look at the list of all plugins, It appears that the only version 
of flash installed is 11.1 r102.  That's the one that I disabled.