Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Pete Smout]

On 29 August 2013 18:55, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hi again....

To follow up with ff running at www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nLIa1vrpOo
top shows the plugin container running but zero output in the browser!
See below;

Tasks: 115 total,   3 running, 111 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 58.9%us, 29.1%sy,  8.6%ni,  2.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.7%si,
Mem:   1025576k total,   931152k used,    94424k free,    78224k buffers
Swap:  1046524k total,      392k used,  1046132k free,   388060k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2711 steve     20   0 1153m 356m  38m S 16.5 35.6   6:14.48 firefox
 7710 steve     30  10     0    0    0 R  8.6  0.0   0:00.26 apport
 7708 steve     20   0     0    0    0 R  4.3  0.0   0:00.13 plugin-cont
 1470 root      20   0 71532  43m 9096 S  3.3  4.3   1:22.00 Xorg
 2061 steve     20   0 83600 5196 3320 S  3.3  0.5   0:53.74 conky
 1829 steve     20   0  4160 1392  728 S  0.7  0.1   0:03.59 dbus-daemon
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.49 ksoftirqd/0
  342 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.28 jbd2/sda1-8
 1845 steve     20   0  7508 2416 1788 S  0.3  0.2   0:01.14 xscreensave
 7501 steve     20   0  364m 9.8m 8188 S  0.3  1.0   0:00.30 parcellite
 7538 steve     20   0 35364  10m 8644 S  0.3  1.1   0:00.51 x-terminal-
    1 root      20   0  3660 2020 1268 S  0.0  0.2   0:01.20 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.40 kworker/0:0
    6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
    7 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 watchdog/0
steve at steve-desktop-3:~$

PID 7708 is the plugin (?) mmm strange

Pete S