Trusty: chrome and flash won't work for me

[Kevin O'Gorman]

That is unlikey to be the issue here.  The site works fine when I boot
13.10, and works okay on Trusty when I use Firefox.  I just can't get flash
into Chrome.


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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