Youtube/Firefox Foulup??

[John Graddy]

On 01/20/2012 09:05 PM, John Graddy wrote:
> 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.
>
I re-enabled flashplayer, and, it is now working correctly.