Trusty: chrome and flash won't work for me

[Colin Law]

On 20 August 2014 15:10, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm just moving up to Trusty xubuntu.  I've got a fresh install on my AMD
> 64-bit machine.  I've run into a snag with chromium, my favorite browser.
> When I go to http://bigfarm.goodgamestudios.com/?country=US and click to
> log in, I immediately get a window asking me to install a flash player.
> I'm unable to comply.
>
> OTOH, firefox works okay.
>
> I've tried updating flashplayer-installer to no avail; it seems to update
> but the behavior of chrome does not change.  Trying to download and install
> something manually just freezes as soon as I try to install.
>
> I'm sure there's more details that might help, but I don't know which
> ones, and I'm hoping someone else has seen this and already knows how to
> fix it.
>


It doesn't work in FF either for me.  I seem to remember someone saying
that some sites are using flash that is not compatible with the version
available on Linux.  I suggest you tell them to stop using Flash.  Not that
that will help much I know.

Colin.
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