Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Pete Smout]

On 29 August 2013 18:27, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 August 2013 18:22, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the advice.....
>>
>> Yes Colin it is 32bit and old 32bit CPU.
>
> That was me too, BTW.
>
>> Shockwave flash may well be adobe's plugin, still does not mean it
>> works! I may be confusing myself but I thought that swf  was the FOSS
>> version of flash, which if I am right, I would rather use on
>> principle.
>
> It's rarely used but .swf is the file extension. Normally most Flash
> animations exist inside web pages, not as separate files in your
> filesystem; it's fairly normal not to be able to open such a file, as
> the Flash player is a browser plugin and not a standalone app.
>
>> Liam, if I am about to make a disastrous mistake please let me know!
>> The commands needed to achive your suggested steps are;
>>
>> sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
>> sudo apt-get purge adobe-flashplugin
>
> Yep.
>
>> sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-restricted-extras
>> sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-restricted-extras
>
> No, leave them.
>
>> now the bit I am uncertain of....
>>
>> sudo reboot -fsck -n             ??????
>
> No.
>
> sudo touch /forcefsck
> such shutdown -r now
>
>> then via synaptic install ubuntu-restricted-extras
>
> Just adobe-flashplugin should be enough. Leave the rest of them alone.
>
>
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Hi,

Nice idea, still no youtube.com !!

I am out of ideas now..... dunno where to go from here?

I now get the black box where flash video should be, when
right-clicking on the 'player' trying to bring up adobe settings to
disable hardware acceleration nothing shows up? no menu at all not
even the browsers menu (back, forward, copy, paste etc).

FYI (and mine) it seems I am in error thinking shockwave is different
to adobe when I had uninstalled and purged adobe-flashplugin I
restarted ff and no shockwave in the addons! Put adobe-flashplugin
back, and it reappears! (it is set to always activate)

Thanks again.

Pete Smout.