Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Pete Smout]

On 29 August 2013 19:32, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 August 2013 19:14, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 29 August 2013 18:55, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Nice idea, still no youtube.com !!
>>>
>>> I am out of ideas now..... dunno where to go from here?
>>
>> Some other things to try, first disable any other addons (not plugins)
>> in FF (under Tools > add-ons > Extensions), restart FF and see what
>> happens.  If still no joy make a new user and login as that user and
>> see if the problem is still there.  That will tell you whether it is a
>> system wide problem or a user settings problem.
>>
>> Colin
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>
> Hi,
> Tried disabling all addons except Ubuntu firefox modifications, same
> result (more adds) but same black box!
>
> New test user is exactly the same, has left me thinking video probs
> maybe graphics card related?
>
> Using Nvidia 173.14.35 driver on here, which nvidia settings says: The
> NVIDIA X driver on steve-desktop-3:1.0 is not new enough to support
> the nvidia-settings Display Configuration page. ??
>
>
> Does this mean the driver has been replaced by a newer version??
>
>
> Thanks for all your help everyone!
>
> Peter S

Hi,

Interestingly a downloaded flash video from youtube will not play on
totem or smplayer..... I'm now wondering if I need codecs (gstreamer
's etc) weather this makes any difference to streamed video I don't
know?

Pete S