Youtube/Firefox Foulup??

[Basil Chupin]

On 21/01/12 14:11, John Graddy wrote:
> 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.

Well there you go.

I have found that if you threaten a piece of software with either 
de-installation or worse it suddenly starts to work correctly. The 
little buggers understand plain English when they want to :-) .

BC

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