no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome

[dave perry]

On 03/30/2013 01:19 PM, Hans Muecke wrote:
> Am 30.03.2013 12:33, schrieb Charles Smith:
>
>> Can other people use a browser with Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS?  (silly
>> question, but I don't know what I did unusual.  And I'm anyway blown
>> away that a browser isn't preinstalled).
> Maybe partly related ... sometimes yesterday I noticed that some
> websites wouldn't load and even hang Chrome on a 12.04 installation (at
> the same time it worked with Chrome in a WIN7 virtual machine).
>
> Had some time to investigate today and found out ...
>
> Chromium (25.0.1364.160)
> Firefox (19.0.2)
> Konqueror (4.8.5)
> Opera (11.62)
> rekonq (0.9.1)
>
> show no problems whatsoever.
>
> Chrome (24.0.1312.52) does.
>
> I suspected some trouble with flash so I reinstalled flash on 12.04 ...
> to no avail. While the other browsers work just fine Chrome hangs and
> for the time being is not usable for me.
>
With firefox, you can join the Youtube html5 trial and enjoy faster,
flicker-free Youtube viewing w/o flash.  Just click at the bottom
left in this link:  http://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=CA